From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 1 08:39:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08419 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:39:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08349 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from ringhorni.ifi.uio.no (2602@ringhorni.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.75]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA20586; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:39:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by ringhorni.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:39:03 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "ACETECH Technologies" Cc: Subject: Re: Help References: <000001bded32$95d8c100$b06b60cb@cdr> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 01 Oct 1998 17:39:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: "ACETECH Technologies"'s message of "Thu, 1 Oct 1998 23:56:54 +1200" Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/Emacs 20.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA08366 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "ACETECH Technologies" writes: > Well im new to UNIX and FREEBSD , but have managed to install BSD and XF86 > onto my pc .BSD appears to be running just great but i cant for the life of > me seem to be able to get XWindows to run , First of all, this should go to -questions, not -bugs. -bugs is for bug reports and not installation problems. > When i type "Startx" from either $ {sh} or # {root} i get the following ; > execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/x {errno 2) > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 >From 'man 2 intro': 2 ENOENT No such file or directory. A component of a specified pathname did not exist, or the pathname was an empty string. You haven't selected an X server. You probably haven't configured X at all. Run XFree86Setup and specify which graphics hardware, mouse and keyboard you have. XFree86Setup will select the appropriate X server and symlink it to /usr/X11R6/bin/X, which is what startx expects. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message