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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:20:51 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>
Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: X Windows
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In-Reply-To: <01BD2DC8.99E56A20@fast1>; from Frank Griffith on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 09:34:56PM -0600
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On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 09:34:56PM -0600, Frank Griffith wrote:
> I have FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a 486-66 unit with the following:
>
> Diamond Stealth64  vers 1.04  2 Meg Video Card
> AST SVGA Monitor
>
> I used XF86Setup to do the configurations.The video card has
> an S3 Vision964 chip on it, so I chose that card from the list.
>
> After many tries, I finally got the S3 server running and was able to
> see the screen which said the server was running and I saved the
> configuration file.
>
> However, when I try to startx, I get the following message:
>
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  no server "X" in PATH
>
> My path is set to:
>
> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
> :/usr/local/interviews/bin/FREEBSD

You probably need to link your server to X.  I think it's called
XF86_S3; enter:

 # cd /usr/X11R6/bin
 # ln XF86_S3 X

Normally the installation procedure will do this for you at the end
(but it uses a symlink for some obscure reason).

Greg