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From: Vanh Phom <vphom@comcast.net>
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On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 11:43, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Vanh Phom wrote:
> 
> > After spending the last couple days installing Freebsd. I managed to get
> > X up bare. Apparently the X server is up with a blank screen and no way
> > to shut it down. I'm trying to run kdm,sometime it would work if I cd to
> > /usr/local/bin and type kdm. Otherwise I got a blank screen.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> By blank screen, you mean the crosshatch pattern with the X cursor?
> 
> The normal way to start X up is using 'startx'. This arranges for a
> ~/.xinitrc script to run to start your window manager, or will start up a
> basic twm session if that file is not present.
> 
> Also, if you need it, the X server kill key is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

I seem to found a solution for now. First I found that the DISPLAY
variable was not set on root. That what I thought the server start up
with no client connect to and C-A-B didn't work.
So I recompile the kernel and thing seems to work fine for now.

Vanh