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Date:      Mon, 26 Dec 1994 22:04:03 +0000
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
To:        TAM SIU CHUNG <94650499@cityu.edu.hk>
Cc:        QUESTIONS@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 3.1 problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.3.87.9412262202.F355-0100000@personal.net.org>
In-Reply-To: <01HL51K3FJ1G8WWHH5@cityu.edu.hk>

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On Tue, 27 Dec 1994, TAM SIU CHUNG wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 	I have recently brought your FreeBSD 2.0 and I can sucessfully install
> it into my machine. It can boot right from it and nothing special happened but
> when I change the directory into /usr/X11R6/bin, all the binary modules seemed
> to be installed but was under certain access protection. We can I do to deal
> with this ?
> 
> 	I have repeatedly install several times and the same things still
> exists. And there was no man pages or README file to tell me what to do. I have
> also follow the instructions inside README.FreeBSD, but it doesn't work. I am
> the first time to use your system, or I am a novice only. I do want to try your
> system under X11R6.
> 
> 	My system is a VLB mother board, with a Cyrix DX2-50 CPU, one 540
> Quantum harddisk and one 179 Conner harddisk. A soundblaster 16 scsi-2
> controller and a media vision CD-ROM with 8 MB system Ram.
> 
> 	Thank you for your help and hoping for you reply.
> 
> Joseph Tam
> (Hong Kong)
> 

I think your /usr/X11R6/bin files are not in your PATH environment.  
Look in your .cshrc in your root directory for the root user.  You 
should have a line that looks like:

set path=(/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin)


Hope this helps...




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