From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 6 0:56:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cepheus.azstarnet.com (cepheus.azstarnet.com [169.197.56.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7B937C13C for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 00:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbcorey@azstarnet.com) Received: from azstarnet.com (sbcorey@dialup02ip051.tus.azstarnet.com [169.197.30.179]) by cepheus.azstarnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA16437; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 00:56:28 -0700 (MST) X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ Message-ID: <39643BA7.38114A1D@azstarnet.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 00:56:23 -0700 From: S B COREY X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Michelini Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11R6 Install problems References: <39639993.C28DCF25@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Did you first configure X with either XF86Setup (GUI) or xconfigurator (text)? What version of X are you using? What type of video card are you using? What type of monitor? What type of mouse? http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/ is a great place to start with troubleshooting. However, if you have not first configured X to operate on your system, then that is most likely the problem. http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#Err11 is a direct response to your message. Scott John Michelini wrote: > Hi Folks, > > During Install, at "Choose Distributions," I chose #2, "X-Developer," > but when I type at $, I get the following: > Execve failed for /usr/x11r6/bin/x > X11TransSocketUNIXConnect failed... > > I have tried a post-install re-config, but to no avail. > > Any thoughts or pointers to relevant archives? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message