Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 03:32:03 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Eric Kylstra <erick@accessone.com> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X-Windows - trying to get working Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961216033023.29516A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <9612161037.AA00493@pulm1.accessone.com>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Eric Kylstra wrote: > 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? > If you're absolutely sure the path is correct, you might want to try: 1) rehashing -- if you're using tcsh you should remember that it doesn't look up executables each time you run them; instead it hashes their locations in a database. Sometimes you need to tell it to "rehash" to update that database. 2) reinstalling X -- can't hurt, right? > > Eric Kylstra > erick@accessone.com > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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