From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 20:15:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deepblue.big-blue.net (deepblue.big-blue.net [208.237.121.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F8F14C39 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:15:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big-blue.net) Received: from big-blue.net (localhost.big-blue.net [127.0.0.1]) by deepblue.big-blue.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04535; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:11:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alex@big-blue.net) Message-ID: <37FD60F5.FA8C925B@big-blue.net> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 23:11:49 -0400 From: Alex V P X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: whitehat@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: success...and failure References: <37FD5D3C.68EA3FAB@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG whitehat@home.com wrote: > At last...with you guy's helping emails I was able to successfully > install FreeBSD 3.2, and with some kernel hacking, and I/O altering, I > got my ethernet card working. One problem though...after I boot up and > log in as root, I type startx and this nasty error comes up: > > " execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/x(errno2)" > > its a little weird...my mouse shows up on the screen, I can move it > around and all that, however I'm still in console and I can execute > commands. Its as if I'm halfway in X and halfway in console. Whats > going on? I ran the non-graphical Xfree86 config...everything seemed to > go ok execept for my video card selection. I have no idea what my video > card is and what memory it has! So I just guessed. Is there any way to > re-configure it without re-installing FreeBSD? I need help. One final > thing...During installation, I chose to install KDE 1.1.1, but it > couldnt find "Mesa". I have the 4 CD set, so mabye KDE is on one of the > other CD's? How would I install/view the software while logged in > FreeBSD? I would appreciate any response/flames/confusion you can offer > me...thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message start /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup to configure X in graphical mode what kind of card do you have? at boot time at least you can read what card do you have ;-)) have fun alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message