From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 15:18:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24725 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from maildeliver0.tiac.net (maildeliver0.tiac.net [199.0.65.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24718 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:18:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailnfs0.tiac.net (mailnfs0.tiac.net [199.0.65.17]) by maildeliver0.tiac.net (8.8.0/8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29980 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:18:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from kbarker.tiac.net (kbarker.tiac.net [206.119.12.224]) by mailnfs0.tiac.net (8.8.0/8.8) with SMTP id SAA14723 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:18:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3294E418.5C4D@tiac.net> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:22:00 -0500 From: Keith Barker X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Am I Missing Something? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm a new FreeBSD user with a passing familiarity with unix. I'm installing FreeBSD on a Pentium machine with plenty of RAM, SCSI HDD and SCSI CD-ROM. I've got the Greg Lehey book on FreeBSD, and that has been some help up until now. My problem is that I'm trying to install XFree86 which came on the same CD-ROM as the FreeBSD os (2.1.5). Following the instructions in the book seems to have put all the files on the disk. However, after following all the steps to install the software, XFree86 will not start. I've followed the steps for an "automatic" installation, and I have also configured XFree86 manually by following the instructions in the book, with no results. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Keith Barker kbarker@tiac.net