Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:14:31 -0400 From: Jason Cromer <jacromer@vt.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Installing X 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970814191431.007acd90@mail.vt.edu>
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Can someone tell me what's going on here? I'm a new (about a month)
FreeBSD user and I've been trying since then to install X. My machine is a
P-133,
32mb ram, 1gb allocated for FreeBSD, and a 2mb SVGA card. I'm trying
to install X 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 2.2.2.
# su
# umask 022
<no problems here yet>
# cd /usr
#for i in /msdos/freebsd/xfree86/x*.tgz; do tar -x -z --unlink -f
$i; done
<seems like all the files are being untarred Where exactly are they
being untarred to?>
#cd /usr/X11R6/bin; rm X; ln -s XF86_SVGA X
<There was no /usr/X11R6 directory even created so I manually created it>
# echo 'set path = ($path /usr/X11R6/bin)' >>/etc/csh.login
# echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin' >>/etc/profile
<no problems doing this>
# ldconfig /usr/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib
<Error: /usr/local/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib do not exist at all.
I had to create these two directories, but someone told me
that there's something wrong if I had to create them. He
said that it was automatic that these two directories should
have been made. I'm positive that I downloaded every
file from www.XFree86.Org in their /binaries directory. Am I
forgetting something?>
I really appreciate any advice or help with this in pointing me in
the right direction to get X up and running. Thank you :)
Jason
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