From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 8 20:12:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17385 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 20:12:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uniqsite.uniqsite.com. (uniqsite.com [206.14.149.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17364 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 20:12:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timm@uniqsite.com) Received: from localhost (timm@localhost) by uniqsite.uniqsite.com. (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA02833; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 20:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timm@uniqsite.com) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 20:11:53 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Moony To: Bill Bixby cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How come startx won't install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Bill Bixby wrote: > > > I tried installing Xwindows via your install program, trying a > number of different tricks during a number of install attempts. > Let's see, I install User, X-User and X-Developer, and all > three at once. Nothing worked. How come xwindows won't > install. I'm using version 2.2.5. Is there a bug? > > Thanks. > I've been using XF86Setup for prototyping X86. Go to /usr/X11/bin and run XF86Setup and go through the steps, it sure beats xf86config. Don't worry about the high resolution, start from a working screen and as you experiences grow you'll be able to manually modify the /etc/XF86Config file. Good luck. Eventually you probably want to try KDE interface. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message