From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 16 12: 2:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7A637B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA63431; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:02:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:02:30 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Vladimir Melnik Cc: All Subject: Re: XFree86 In-Reply-To: <20001110021449.A5888@irpin.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I do understand the message but here are a couple of things to check: 1) I assume you have run XF86Setup or xf86config and xdm is up and going. If that is the case, startx is a script so you can look at all the commands it issues. One or more of XF86_SVGA, XF86_VGA16, etc should be in /usr/X11R6/bin. The default script using files in $HOME tostart your window manager. 2) All that being said, I have always installed this as a distribution and recently read on questions or stable that it is a complex install and is best done from sysinstall. Should you choose this route, you can do that by pkg_delete, and perhaps make clean, you need to consult the man pages and or the handbook and then running /stand/sysinstall choosing the post install configuration option. On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Vladimir Melnik wrote: > Hello. > > I've just installed XFree86 from /ports, but when I trying to run > startx, I got just it: > > Authentication failed - cannot start X server. > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > What it seems to be? > > Thanks. > > -- > V.Melnik > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message