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To: Colin Nugent <colinn@cyserv1.cybase.co.uk>
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I'm sending your letter to freebsd-questions where you are more likely
to get help.

Doug

Colin Nugent wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
>                  Have searched the manual FAQ's etc, and XFREE86, for
> reference to the following;
> 
>           I am able to get an X server running by accessing /usr/X11R6/bin
> and running the server from there. If I use startx or xinit I get a message
> saying the server is not in the path.
> 
> 2 Questions, please.
> 
> 1 Which file do I edit to put the path to the server, so I can use startx?
> 2 When I get a server running as described above, I cannot get any windows
> or colour, just the mouse pointer on a grey background. How do I get the
> window manager to appear?
> 
> I am running a Cyrix P200 MMX 32mb Ram S3 trio 64+ 2mb.
> 
> I would be grateful for any help you can provide,
> 
>                                                     Thanks Colin.
> 
> Colinn

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