From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 10:35:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E020D37B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9926643E1D for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from effdefender@earthlink.net) Received: from lsanca1-ar19-4-47-010-168.lsanca1.elnk.dsl.genuity.net ([4.47.10.168] helo=Family) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Oibx-0003Ii-00 for Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:35:45 -0700 Message-ID: <000f01c2205c$82adbf20$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Reply-To: "James" From: "James" To: "Freebsd-questions" Subject: Getting KDE to work Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:35:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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 I'm new to FreeBSD (thought I have basic experience using Solaris, I'm pretty new to UNIX). Thank you everyone for your help so far. I had a lot of trouble getting KDE to work, but I finally did a "make install clean" on KDE3. It successfully installed. I've installed XFree86 version 4.2. I can't seem to get KDE to run. I type: #startkde and it then spits back: xsetroot: unable to open display '' xset: unable to open display "" ksplash: cannot connect to X server kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. ksmserver: cannot connect to X server Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! My guess is that I need to set the display somehow (though I could be wrong). How would I do this? I've run through the /stand/sysinstall installation for XFree86 3 times. I checked XF86Config to make sure it was there and looked reasonable (though I could only guess at that). It has a section "ServerLayout" where the Screen field is: Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 It looks like extra 0s, but I don't know for sure. Could this be the problem? Thanks in advance! -James Turnbull To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message