From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 19:59:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omsk.mushinsky.net (omsk.mushinsky.net [66.114.66.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9052037B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imush@mail.ru) Received: from omsk.mushinsky.net (itz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by omsk.mushinsky.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6I2uYQ00467; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:56:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from imush@mail.ru) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" From: Isaac Mushinsky To: , "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: Newbie, X server not working. Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:56:34 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071722563401.00413@omsk.mushinsky.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ra you sure the file XF86Config exists and is in the right place? I think= the=20 configuration utility only creates the file in you home directory. You th= en=20 examine and put it in /etc/X11. It appears you installed X v 3.x.x. Perhaps you should try 4.0.x in the=20 ports. I found it much better. On Tuesday 17 July 2001 11:52, you wrote: > I installed the user w/xwindow distribution 4.2 successfully except for= one > thing. I cannot get the xwindows to start. When I was in the X86Confi= g > through /stand/sysinstall, it recognized my mouse and I was configuring= it > in an xwindow environment, but when trying to start xwindows, it could = not > do it. I have an ATI All in wonder video card. I used the Mach64 driv= ers > like it specified, but still no luck. Any ideas for this newbie? I re= ally > want to switch over to Unix/Linux from Windows. Any help would greatly= be > appreciated. > John Ellison > john-n-judy@msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message