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Date:      Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:35:21 -0700
From:      "James" <effdefender@earthlink.net>
To:        "Freebsd-questions" <Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Getting KDE to work
Message-ID:  <000f01c2205c$82adbf20$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net>

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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


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