From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 02:03:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83371065676 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander.j.cox@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4258FC17 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so5411954iwn.13 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:03:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3sirKiLR26k1bzSP0+v+efxrFopr616qFQ6tZIuEp/c=; b=URmkFtc1nnB9/YbokYhSvx128UwmVFQJq4YputlIVZOZcGrdWMlemK3EuT8JiT/Pcl K3uNikQJnGgEulMoO8DBP3RkgH/22leSAaR+x4yJT2/6ir/N0bPlIuYjVNEud4LiviXH R+TaNE+WRvOC/EEqpuPOgMucGTmKm+p4YMKgc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rVyVlRFGVE3FHo7ovWUxldWC6Xf0jH7LzQPo1UQ7r1C1RUR6yPuTqe8u2YssWhNTwK kTrcQ9NhXCekbhwSZiSgfnAyxDlx6u9dDkT1NsLEsDqwAvrmZr0m+8XVw1gMPsI57tWL L0GoHPP2WPxIbWllKtZOlu24Jgqxqu0WhN1dg= Received: by 10.231.67.85 with SMTP id q21mr1536225ibi.155.1300498420016; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alex.home (ppp121-45-192-233.lns20.cbr1.internode.on.net [121.45.192.233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm1856621ibo.25.2011.03.18.18.33.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8407EF.7070604@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:33:35 +1100 From: Alexander Cox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100630 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gua.chunglim@gmail.com References: <20110317134728.GA1417@gmail.com> <20110318064011.GA69484@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20110318154101.GA1847@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110318154101.GA1847@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 8.2R can't startx X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:03:18 -0000 On 03/19/11 02:41, Gua Chung Lim wrote: > [...] > >> Have you tried reverting to the default xinitrc (starting twm and >> a couple of xterms)? This will help distinguish between a problem >> with Xorg and a problem with KDE. >> > Hmm I'm sorry, I don't know twm. > I do not understand the default .xinitrc. I created it by myself. > I only know without .xinitrc being created, startx gave 3 xterms. > But I believe that the problem should be xorg because > both KDE and GNOME cannot start with the same symptom. > > If startx gave three xterms, with no .xinitrc, you were probably seeing twm (X's default wm). This means that the problem may not be xorg. If you delete .xinitrc you should be greeted with these xterms again and be able to move them etc. You can try to delete your xorg.conf, that often gets me into a DE. Due to HAL and the new versions of xorg trying to make config files useless, an xorg.conf can sometimes stop xorg from running. I have not had an xorg.conf in about two years. It sounds (and is) silly, but might work. Make sure to backup your xorg.conf just in case. --Alexander Cox