From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 4 12: 6:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from deimos.email.Arizona.EDU (deimos-adm.email.Arizona.EDU [128.196.133.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8B437B423 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by deimos.email.Arizona.EDU (5.1.046) id 39AF04DC000263E4; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:06:03 -0700 Message-ID: <39AF04DE00000F81@deimos.email.Arizona.EDU> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:06:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: <025f01c01641$bdc34430$1301a8c0@office.cseetransporthk.com.hk> From: manda@email.arizona.edu Subject: Re: X-Windows !! To: "Alvin Poon" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanx for the info. However, i couldn't get it working. AS you said I con= figured x using XFree86 (XF86Config), but when I tried starting x-windows, I got a lengthy message, the ending of which is as follows : MOno : Srever for interlaced and banked monchrome adaptors (patchlevel 0)= hgc 1280, signalview, apollo, hercules using syscons driver with X suppor= t (versiob 2.0) (Using VT number 9) XF86 config : /etc/XF86Config (**)stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**)XKB: keymap : "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings) (**)Mouse : type : Intellimouse, device : /dev/mouse, baudrate : 1200 (**)Mouse buttons: 3 (**)VGA16 Graphics device ID : AGP 2D/3D v. IN, AGP-740D" (**)VGA16 Graphics Monitor ID : "My Monitor" (--)VGA16 : mode "1600x1200" needs hsync frequency of 105.77 KHz. Deleted= (--)VGA16 : mode "1280x1024" needs hsync frequency of 107.16 KHz. Deleted= (--)VGA16 : mode "1280X1440" needs hsync frequency of 96.15 KHz. Deleted (--)VGA16 : mode "1800X1440" needs hsync frequency of 104.52 KHz. Deleted= -- Original Message -- >'X' is normally a soft link to another executable, for example 'XF86_SVG= A' >or 'XF86_VGA16', depending on the graphics card you are using. > >Normally, when you configure X using XF86Setup or through /stand/sysinst= all >(Configure->XFree86), this is done for you automatically. > >Alvin Poon, System Engineer >CSEE Transport Hong Kong Limited > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Hemanth K. Manda >To: >Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:14 PM >Subject: X-Windows !! > > >> >> >> Hi, >> >> After some hard work (basically repartioned my system so that unix sta= rts >> within 8GB range), I could boot both unix and win98, but got the follw= ing >> error when tried to start X-Windows : >> >> execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/X (errno 2) >> >> I failed to locate a file by name 'X' in my /usr/X11R6/bin >> directory. It would be nice if someone can explain the reason for this= >> error along with a plausible solution. I used 'startx' to initiate th= e >> X-Windows interface. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Hemanth Manda. >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message