From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 15 9:56:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maskin.ettnet.se (maskin.oden.se [193.220.120.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A59D14C1D for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 09:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tw@ettnet.se) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by maskin.ettnet.se (8.9.1a/8.8.8) id SAA12139 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 18:55:39 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199905151655.SAA12139@maskin.ettnet.se> Received: from UNKNOWN(193.220.122.31), claiming to be "dialup31.ettnet.se" via SMTP by maskin, id smtpdAAAa002xU; Sat May 15 18:55:32 1999 From: "Thomas Widlundh" To: "FreeBSD" Date: Sat, 15 May 99 16:52:52 Reply-To: "Thomas Widlundh" X-Mailer: PMMail 1.95a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: XF86Setup Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Another question from i dump middleage person.... My xserver is not very willing to start after config (/stand/sysconfig Post-install-X) The config.prog. is trying to start x but leaves me the message "Unable to start xserver". Then I'm supposed to click OK to start the config al over again, and all computer seaces function. I have to reboot it Trying to start with "startx" is resulting in an error 635 (or something). And I have all the xservers installed. Earlier I had both RedHat and Caldera installed, and there where no problem with X. I've choosen no extrem config, just an ordinary VGA with an ordinary cirrus 5434 and a standard VGA monitor. My questions is: Must the xserver have a desktop like fvwm or kde to start? Is it possibly like I'm short of links between X and xserver somewhere? Is there any desktop env. installed at all from the FreeBSD CD-ROM 3.1, or is this something I have to install afterwards? This isn't easy You know. Reading hundreds of mans and Howtos in a foreign language just to snap a little deail. And with "vi" wich force me to struggle through html-tags. Much complaining, isn't it? :-) Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message