From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 17:42: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C932F37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7750F43E65 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (5a8da234139b8d6b8fb65e6162f91150@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6M0gO2e000387; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6M0gOkC000386; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:42:24 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: "T.J." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 4.6 issue Message-ID: <20020722004224.GS94707@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , "T.J." , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002f01c23119$873c3ad0$16d02f04@jeckle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002f01c23119$873c3ad0$16d02f04@jeckle> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "no screens found" is X's way of saying "i couldn't start up any of the configurations you told me to try." you need to configure /etc/X11/XF86Config. look in the handbook (freebsd.org/doc/handbook/) and read the sections on configuring X. -Adam >> (07.21.2002 @ 1748 PST): T.J. said, in 1.9K: << > > I am installing 4.6 FreeBSD and after it was installed I logged in as > root and I could not startx, it errored out saying no screens found > and kdelibs had a problem. I reinstalled and I still get the same. If > you have any ideas or have seen this before shoot me an e-mail and let > me know, in the mean time I will be trying to correct this. I am not a > newbie, I am used to Solaris 8 and Red Hat and I wanted to try FreeBSD > out because I liked the ports idea. Let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > Tony D >> end of "installing 4.6 issue" from T.J. << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message