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To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: looking for XFree86 4.2 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Feb 2002 06:40:41 PST."
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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:53:54 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:40:41 -0800
> From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:07:00 +0100
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:28:36 -0800
> > > From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
> > > To: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
> > > Cc: mij@soupnazi.org, questions@FreeBSD.org
> > > Subject: Re: looking for XFree86 4.2
> > > 
> > > I installed the source for XFree86-4.2.0 and it works fine. My
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> > > the directions if you already have X installed.  One more point, now
> > > that it is installed, it is only useable by root. I haven't got that
> > > straightened out yet.
> > 
> >     # cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper/
> >     # make install
> >     # exit
> >     > startx
> 
> Done that, still startx will only complain. running Xwrapper itself results in only a grey screen with a curser.

Did you install wrapper after the installation of 4.2? If not:
cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper
make deinstall
make reinstall

Also, can you post the error you got? The text of the error should be in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log. 

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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