From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 26 18:43:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18865 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:43:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18773 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA07655; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:41:56 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA21769; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:41:55 -0600 (CST) To: "Marc Smith" Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Windows X References: <01bd2ae4$cbb6b220$2fb28cd1@computer> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 26 Jan 1998 20:41:54 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Marc Smith"'s message of "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:31:19 -0800" Message-ID: <87lnw27i4t.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "Marc Smith" writes: > [1 ] > Hello, > I have a question having to do with the Windows X part of FreeBSD. I = > have installed FreeBSD and when I boot into it, I login in and I get a = > command prompt. How do I go into Windows X? I looked in the hand book = > and it said to type this "startx >& startx.log" and when I typed that = > in, it did not say anthing and did nothing. Please help. Thanks for your = > time. startx is the command to start the "X server", whcih handles the graphical windowing environment. the ">&" redirects all output (both normal output and errors) to a file, called "startx.log" in this case. So whatever is going on (e.g., an error message), is being directed to this file and that is why you don't see anything. Best bet would be to type "more startx.log"! At some point you'll probably want to configure your X Server --use XF86Config to do this. Have fun! -- Steve Farrell