Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:58:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>, "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with the X server Message-ID: <19981015125856.C503@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981014215109.26909C-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>; from BEAUPRE Antoine on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:53:47PM -0400 References: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD84A@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.981014215109.26909C-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 21:53:47 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77) wrote: > >> I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 using a custom install. >> I installed anything that seemed relevant for X (installing only >> the necessary servers, i.e. the SVGA, ATI and one last one, >> plus KDE for the windowmanager). When doing the setup >> of XFree86 (using the GUI), at the end, when it attempts starting >> the server, all I get is a blank screen and nothing more. The >> error message I get from the setup program (after a CTRL-ALT- >> BACKSPC) is that the server is running on an other (or an >> invalid) virtual terminal. When attempting to run it using >> startx (I have a .xinint file in my home dir containing startkde) > > Some little thing(s?): > 1- The .xinitrc must be a shell script, i.e. the first line must be > something like: > #! /bin/sh Well, I've been getting by quite nicely without this entry in my .xinitrc for over 8 years now. > 2- The .xinitrc file must be executable (chmod u+x .xinitrc). And it's not executable.. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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