From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 16:27: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221D640A3 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id SAA51582; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:25:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:25:01 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier Message-Id: <200002120025.SAA51582@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com> To: questions@freebsd.org X-Also-Posted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Can't start X server!!! Help References: <87vt2r$a20$1@bob.news.rcn.net> Organization: @Home Network X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <87vt2r$a20$1@bob.news.rcn.net>, Whee Kim wrote: > >I just installed FreeBSD 3.1 ,but I can't start X. when I type "startx" it >gives me following... > >execve failed for /usr/x11R6/bin/x (errno 2) >-x11TransSocket UNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno = 2 <----- this repeats. >-x11........ >........ >giving up > >xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): Unable to connect to X server >xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error > >What does all that mean? >I thought I configured X server alright with sysinstall. > >I have ATI Xpert 2000 32meg, AGP card. I didn't see my card in the support >list, but I assume it works... > >Please help. I'm suddenly getting the same error, and I had a perfectly working X installation until just the other day. I'm completely baffled. None of the available documentation even mentions this error code. XF86Setup works fine, bringing up the VGA16 server, but after configuring to use the S3 driver, it fails when it tries to restart. I'm getting desperate here, folks! Any clues would be *greatly* appreciated! -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message