From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 17 12:24:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624C237BB30 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA1ABD; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:26:38 -0700 Message-ID: <39735CF2.D0A43446@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:22:26 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "new.xs4all.nl" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting KDE and so on References: <8kvkap$dpv$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "new.xs4all.nl" wrote: > > Hey guys, > looking at your answers I derive, that teh real prblem is somewhere else: > probably a faulty distribution. > Therfore, things get fucked up and I cannot use freebsd. alas. Not totally unheard of. I first tried FreeBSD with 3.2 from a CD purchased from LinuxMall (six distros for six dollars, I couldn't resist). Unfortunately, the CD had a bad package index, forcing me to use ports to compile *everything* from scratch. Then the official FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE had a sysinstall bug that they quickly fixed, but I was still stuck with it :-( However, I don't think the problem is a faulty distribution. Probably just a bad configuration somewhere. Can you run other X window managers? Will twm start if you get rid of your .xinitrc? Did you have problems configuring X with XF86Setup or xf86config? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message