From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 13:56:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0664A16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m01.mx.aol.com (imo-m01.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0533F43FBD for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from NYROSS29@aol.com) Received: from NYROSS29@aol.com by imo-m01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id n.1c0.1228b43c (16633) for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:56:48 -0500 (EST) From: NYROSS29@aol.com Message-ID: <1c0.1228b43c.2cf3d8a0@aol.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:56:48 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5100 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:58:11 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: help, i'm a newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:56:53 -0000 i'm a newbie and i just installed freebsd 4.8. the basic installation seemed to have gone fairly well, i can use the console mode fine enough. the problem is when i try to load a window manager, KDE, Afterstep, Windowmaker (the ones i've tried thus far) i get a blank screen when i use the startx command. when i try just typing afterstep or kcontrol at the command prompt i get a "cannot open display" msg. any thoughts or suggestions? send reply to casp_semper@yahoo.com thanks much