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Subject: Re: xfree86 broken on bsd : error code 1
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On Thu, September 20, 2007 15:05, Tom Wuyts wrote:
> hello,
>
>
> I installed freebsd 6.2 by burning the 2 iso images from the site and
> installing them. After the install he wont start gnome. startx fails.

You'll need to configure X before it's able to start.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

> then I tried to install gnome. I followed the instructions on FAQ 6.
> (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q6).
>
> the installation fails after a couple of hours while i'm running the
> "make install clean" command. XFree86 appears to be broken. So I
> tried to install it with pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
> ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/XFree86-aoutlibs.tbz.
>
> This he won't do because there are no a.out libraries.
>
> any suggestions?

Yeah, don't use XFree86. Use Xorg.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html

Cheers,

Remko C.