From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 26 22:33:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAE337B40A for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:33:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15bF0r-00038c-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:32:41 +0300 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:32:40 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't start X Windows Message-ID: <20010827083240.C3234@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000601c12eb5$29630cc0$8f6896d1@granitepost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000601c12eb5$29630cc0$8f6896d1@granitepost.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 8:26AM up 4 days, 12:33, 1 user, load averages: 1.35, 1.13, 1.10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Clarence Brown [20010827 06:49]: writing on th= e subject 'RE: can't start X Windows' | No, I don't get the Xfree86 signon screen | (what ever that is). What I get is a solid=20 | dark gray screen with no cursor. This is the=20 | same if I start kde, or twm. |=20 | If I run just the XFree86 it stops with the=20 | gray "hatched" background and the X cursor,=20 | which is controlled with the mouse. |=20 | If my .xinitrc starts kde, or I erase the=20 | .xinitrc and let it start the default of=20 | twm the result is the same. I quick flash=20 | of the gray hatched screen with X cursor,=20 | followed by the solid dark gray screen with=20 | no cursor. The only way out from there is=20 | to hit Ctrl-Alt-BkSp. Which takes me back=20 | to the command line prompt. |=20 | Any ideas? Hi Clarence, I am sorry to say this but you _really_ have to go through the paces with xfree86config to generate an XF86Config whose details you're sure of. That file will be in /etc/X11/=20 It's very rare that the file generated for you by XFree86 -configure will run. For one it doesn't know your monitor's Hsync/VSync rates. I don't know how it guesses what your VGA card it but I'm still sure that file you're trying to use never runs 'out-of-the-box'. I run Kde2.2 here but also run twm, xfce and a couple of other window managers. All that is needed is a sane XF86Config. So what I am saying in a nutshell is.. login as root then type xf86config answer all those questions wisely.=20 then try again startx -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.=20 --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7idt4n7LIsuxjem8RAoPuAKCAZpiJDq5qu3DhF/+Zc9XN3wJ7yACfQN/n zkDgvFge8vRZoXserTkjO7A= =2v7F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message