From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 13:09:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA07278 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:09:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA07268 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:09:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA04828; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:09:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:09:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jeff Roberts cc: FreeBSD questions list Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall doesn't In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote: > I finally got 2.1.7 installed on my secondary disk. I chose the > X-developer can. I also, at the end, did *not* add any packages, because > the last time I had gzip errors that caused the installation to fail (and > I had to start over). I thought that the X-developer can would include an > actual installation of X on the machine, and the X directories are there, > but it doesn't boot X on default (I'm used to SCO OpenServer, which did). This is true. You have to either login and use 'startx' or: . add xdm to your /etc/rc.local . add '/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon' to /etc/ttys Whichever works for you. I found, with the Mach64 server, it didn't like being run from ttys, thus the rc.local option. Both will give you a X login prompt and use your ~/.xsession file for session prefs. startx will use ~/.xinitrc. > I tried to use /stand/sysinstall to configure the X stuff, but the program > doesn't seem to work. It says to select the option, but pushing number > and letter keys does absolutely nothing. Pushing TAB moves the brackets > back to EXIT, but the RETURN key doesn't even seem to work. The only keys > besides TAB that do anything are the the various functions keys -- but all > they do is dump me to the command line. I tried man and apropos for the > sysinstall program, but that gave me nothing. Does it accept an argument? > All my attempts to pass arguments failed. Odd that sysinstall wouldn't work right. Were you running this from the console? You can run the X setup program yourself by running '/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup' or the old text-mode one by running '/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config'. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major