From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 07:26:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA00185 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 07:26:05 -0800 Received: from dg02sg.mcimail.com (dg02sg.mcimail.com [192.147.45.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA00174 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 07:25:52 -0800 Received: from mailgate.mcimail.com (mailgate.mcimail.com [166.38.40.3]) by dg02sg.mcimail.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA09172 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 15:24:32 GMT Received: from mcimail.com by mailgate.mcimail.com id ah09097; 30 Mar 95 14:59 WET Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 09:58 EST From: Mitchell Ackerman <0006619934@mcimail.com> To: FreeBSD questions Subject: X Installation Message-Id: <11950330145811/0006619934PK3EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It would not be an exageration to say that I am having a very difficult time getting X Windows Installed. I have been following the readme for XFree86-3.1 and have had several difficulties. The 1st real problem is that modifying the login and profile files as suggested does not result in the path variable being set up correctly. A kluge has temporarily addressed this. Secondly running xdm manually gave me a bunch of errors of the type "failed to connect to socket at port 177", etc. I eventually concluded that this is what one might expect if the XServer had not been configured (as it had not). Thirdly, and this is where I am stuck, is that I cannot get my mouse device type of COM port set up. I am using COM3 I think ther is a reasom for this), but only have tty00 & tty01 defined. I tried creating (MAKEDEV) tty02, but have had no luck configuring this. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mitchell.