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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
To: James <effdefender@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Getting KDE to work
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> 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.

You can't just type "startkde" you need to start X, so your best bet is to
put "exec startkde" in the file ~/.xinitrc, then type startx...

This is assuming you set up XFree86 properly.
>
> 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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