From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 02:05:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA26647 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 02:05:26 -0700 Received: from newton.SpaceNet.DE (root@newton.Space.NET [194.45.12.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA26632 ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 02:05:13 -0700 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.174.4.1]) by newton.Space.NET with SMTP id <82669-1>; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 04:01:53 +0200 Received: from fns.muc.de ([193.174.4.223]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <25564-3>; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 04:01:32 +0200 Received: (from peterb@localhost) by fns.muc.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id DAA15838; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 03:54:41 +0200 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 03:54:38 +0200 From: Peter Bechtold X-Sender: peterb@fns To: Joseph Steinberg cc: questions@freebsd.org, question@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Joseph Steinberg wrote: > My FreeBSD installation saga ;-( continues... > > I have configured the X-server and some other things, but when I run X > all I get is a grey (i.e., black and white display) screen that goes way > off my monitor, with a mouse prompt 'X', and a frozen system (well, sort > of frozen, -- the mouse moves the mouse pointer, but that is all I can > do. I have to hit the 'RESET' key and reboot -- and pray the the > filesystem is in order -- to do anything). How do you start X ? xinit ? startx ? xdm ? I suppose you just say 'X' ... Use xinit, startx or xdm ! Peter -- # Peter Bechtold # Tel./Fax (+49 / 0) 89 / 542 0774 # # e-Mail: peterb@muc.de # Scall: 01681-1694153 #