From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 16:42:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23756 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:42:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23743 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id QAA11478 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:42:33 -0800 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id QAA12208 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:42:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:41:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X 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 Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jason Kulig wrote: > Hi, > I bought and installed the Walnut Creek cd collection of FreeBSD. > It seemed to install OK (although I have no idea how to navigate the OS) > until I tried to start XF86. I probed and found my vid card, set the > specs on my monitor and mouse, but I get a message that it can't find > the server, then gives me a list of servers. I am anxious as hekk to > get it up and working.....and to purge my system of Microsoft. > > Jason Kulig I have never seen this message myself. It sounds like you need to make a link to your actual server. In the /usr/X11R6/bin directory. There are several "servers" in this directory. They are named XF86_S3 and so forth. There should also be a file named simply 'X' which is a link to your specific server. If this link is missing then do this: $ ln /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_whats_its_name /usr/X11R6/bin/X If the server XF86_whats_its_name is missing then you have a problem with your installation. Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message