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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:16:35 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc: beef@tht.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, support@cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Xwindows won't run after complete re-install
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On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 04:57:18PM +0000, Jason Wells wrote:
>>  I copied xinitrc for .../xinit/xinitrc and copied to
>> /home/beef/.xinitrc and did chown to myself. But that did not help. I
>> am at a loss as what the problem is. I have an ATI mach 64 with 4
>> megs ram and basically did same setup as before. I tried it as root
>> and myself. All fails and gives some type of message about SHVSYM or
>> something like that.
>
> You get grey screen and no windows? I did this once. Have you referenced a
> window manager in .xinitrc? If you haven't started a window manager you
> will get the behavior you described.

There's a slight difference.  Without a window manager, you get *one*
xterm.  You also don't get messages about missing SYSVSHM.

> Also, start a couple of xterms from xinitrc. X will start up and those
> xterms will popup and you will be on your way. YMMV.

You'd be a whole lot better off starting a window manager.

Greg