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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:29:59 -0700
From:      Aaron Kaufman <aaron@aaronkaufman.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X won't start
Message-ID:  <56232047.9090700@aaronkaufman.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151015131224.212aa292@asterius.asterius.net>
References:  <20151015131224.212aa292@asterius.asterius.net>

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German,

Did you try and configure X with Xorg -configure ?
That tells X to create a config for you in /etc/X11

> server error, no screens found. Unable to connect to X server.
> Connection refused. xauth: ( argv) 1: bad display name "dawkins:0" in
> remove command.

This means X can't find your hostname "dawkins"
You can add that to /etc/hosts

On 10/15/2015 10:12, German wrote:
> Hi List,=20
>
>
> I am brand new to FreeBSD ( just installed it a few hours ago). So I
> installed base system, then I made pkg install xorg, pkg install
> lxde-meta and trying to run X. When I issue "startx" I got the
> following:
>
> server error, no screens found. Unable to connect to X server.
> Connection refused. xauth: ( argv) 1: bad display name "dawkins:0" in
> remove command.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks
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