From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 15:12:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0004E37B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 15:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asylum.org (asylum.org [208.13.58.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB8C43F85 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 15:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@asylum.org) Received: from ward.asylum.org (p139.asylum.org [208.13.58.139]) by asylum.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4UMCtV51162; Fri, 30 May 2003 17:12:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dave@asylum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: asylum.org: Host p139.asylum.org [208.13.58.139] claimed to be ward.asylum.org Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20030530165200.02c1ba38@asylum.org> X-Sender: dave@asylum.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:12:54 -0500 To: Tyrel Richey From: dave In-Reply-To: <3ED7BDD0.7C7C6E36@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree config X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 22:12:58 -0000 At 03:23 PM 5/30/2003, you wrote: >I just installed FreeBSD on my computer. >It is working fine and I can get to the shell and do everything execept >go to >the X window. I typed in syinstall and went to the graphical >configuaration >for the X window system and typed in all the moniter and graphics card >paramiters and every thing else but when I finished it said >The X Window configuration seems to have failed >would you like to try again >I have a GeForce4 MX 420 and a CTX moniter >Please send any ideas you have on what the problem is to >tyrel@windstormgroup.com thank you for your time and help As root type in the command: X -configure This will let X create the config file for you in the root directory. Then run the command that appears for testing. If you get a large grey screen with a moving mouse then hit control alt backspace to close X. Then copy the XF86Config.new file in the root dir to /etc/X11/ and give the command "startx" without the quotes. This will start up Xwindows with the window manager TWM. cheers, dave