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Subject: Re: X-Windows - trying to get working
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 06:56:28 +0100 (MET), Bogusz Jelinski wrote:

>
>
>On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Eric Kylstra wrote:
>
>> Excuse a few dumb questions here.  I have installed 2.1.5 and all the
>> basics are working (bash and users are set up).  As part of the install
>> I took the setup options after the main install to set up XF86Config.
>> 
>> I may have made a mistake when I accepted the default to place
>> XF86Config in /etc.  I also copied it to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 after
>> things were done.

>No mistake here.
>> 
>> At this point none of the programs in /usr/X11R6/bin work even though
>> they have the executable permission is set.

>What kind of message is displayed on the screen. I bet - xinit file not 
>found
>The most common mistake is to run X without having set the PATH correctly.
>That is  /usr/X11R6/bin should be added
>
> > 
>> Do I need to compile things from xc/programs/Xserver with make
>> Makefile, make Makefiles, and make depend?

>No need!
>Cheers,
>
>Bogusz
>

I'm afraid all the path stuff is correct.  What I get when I try to run
startx, X or any other X-windows program is that a program by that name
doesn't exist.  This is even though the permissions are correctly set
to executable.  Any other ideas?


Eric Kylstra
erick@accessone.com