From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 19:27:15 2002 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 3B32437B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C95F43E42 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021018022712.OARY26524.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:27:12 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9I2TqUW093050; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:29:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9I2TlIZ093047; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Thanos Tsouanas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie References: <20021017185544.20280.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 17 Oct 2002 19:29:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20021017185544.20280.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4wlm4w4gys.m4w@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Thanos Tsouanas writes: > i have followed the instructions on the HB and they didnt work, thats why i came up with the > insecure method... startx gives similar errors to the ones mentioned in the original msg. > any ideas why? You can get better control over what's going on by avoiding "startx". I use something like this (in a script which keeps root from using X): /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit ~/.xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper-4 You should try omiting the second filename after ensuring that you don't have that file (the default) and X should start up an xterm. That Xwrapper-4 comes from the "x11/wrapper" package/port; it's used to run X with non-root privileges and it expects your XF86Config to say which X server module is to be used, etc. You can probably start a window manager by using it's filename instead of ~/.xinitrc, but most people use a file like that modeled on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc After you know that X will start, you can just start X after booting to text mode like many people prefer to do, or go back and learn how to configure one of the xdm/gdm/kdm gizmos at your leisure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message