From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 5 8:19:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server26.ilap.com (ns1.ilap.com [216.223.128.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD1A150E9 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:19:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phorechuk@docucom.ca) Received: from paul (server25.docucom.ca [209.5.109.25]) by server26.ilap.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3/Internet Light and Power Inc.) with SMTP id LAA26655 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:19:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <031a01bf0ee0$49dc49e0$73f8d7a5@paul.docucom.ca> Reply-To: "Paul Horechuk" From: "Paul Horechuk" To: Subject: X won't start Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:17:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running v3.2 as per the CD-ROM release. My system is AMD K6/233 with ATI All in Wonder video. I've gone through the process of running the XF86 config, for both client and server. I've run the vidtune to set my screen resolutions and I can run the KDE desktop. Here is the problem: On a fresh boot, I type startx and I get an error complaining about not finding any servers. If I use /stand/sysinstall and run the XF86 config option again, I get a screen with the video distorted. There is enough visible to let me respond OK and SAVE at the various buttons. The configuration process ends and I'm back at the sysinstall prompts for the next step, the choice of environments. If I abort at this point to return to the prompt and then run startx, everything is ok and KDE starts up. This is using the root account. What am I missing? I have not been able to configure my dialup to my ISP yet ( there is some strange PAP authorizations going on, which I haven't figured out yet) and as a result have not been able to cvsup anything newer. The 3.3 CD is about to be installed. Is there something I should check on first? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message