From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 12:00:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA22049 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA22043 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from casaunde@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14111 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:51:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from as2511-34.sl006.cns.vt.edu (as2511-34.sl006.cns.vt.edu [128.173.37.45]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA16502 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:51:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.16.19971222134559.32c7663e@mail.vt.edu> X-Sender: casaunde@mail.vt.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (16) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:45:59 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Carson Saunders Subject: Help with Xwin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently installed Free BSD 2.2.1 onto my computer but I cant seem to get X windows to run. Whenever I try startx I get an error message about some shared library that couldnt be found. Then I went into the lib directory and it was sitting right there. Why is this happening? What should I do? Im very new to this so you may have to break it down into dummy terms for me. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Carson Saunders casaunde@vt.edu