Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 11:14:49 -0400 From: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: 'Yann Golanski' <yann@kierun.org>, 'Brian McCann' <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Goofed up X-Install Message-ID: <000901c25293$7bb95990$2e00a8c0@dogbert> In-Reply-To: <20020902145521.GA22391@kierun.org>
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Ok...when I ran the install for 4, it was really quick, so I checked
pkg_info, and it was already there. So I went to /stand/sysinstall, and
tried all the options for XFree86 configs, and all of them tell me they
are not installed. What even odder, is in pkg_info, it lists
XFree86-Clients-4.2.0_5, fontEncodings, fontScalable, and libraries, but
no server. Is this right for 4? I looked on X's homepage, but it's not
much help.
--Brian
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Yann Golanski
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:55 AM
To: Brian McCann
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Goofed up X-Install
Quoth Brian McCann on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:51:52 -0400
> Hi everyone. I think I screwed up my X-Windows install and need a
> hand fixing it. I figured that since the ports collection installs
> all pre-reqs for you, if I went to /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and ran make,
> it would put in everything I need...man was I wrong. When I run
> "startx", I get and error that it can't find xinit, and when I try
> running "XFree86 -configure", it can't find it. Anyone know how/what
> I have to install to recover from this? I assume I probably can just
> run a make on /usr/ports/x11/XFree86, but I don't want to make a bad
> situation worse.
Yes, you need XFree86 installed. Look at the web page for which graphics
card you have and install the version that supports it -- either 4 or 3.
After that you'll need to set X up, which can be tricky. Use the rather
good /stand/sysinstall method and it should work well. You need to
configure a mouse, keyboard, screen (monitor) and graphics cards.
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