Date: 22 Oct 1999 01:50:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: dugg@iafrica.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Server Problem Message-ID: <86ogdsmiqp.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Douglas Ulyate's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:23:46 %2B0200" References: <380E1EC9.95209954@iafrica.com> <380F44C9.4C9990AA@mail.ru> <380F7652.98958583@iafrica.com>
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> Giorgos, I don't think it's a Linux version, I got it off the local > FreeBSD FTP. You can double-check this by running file(1) on the X server binary: % which X /usr/X11R6/bin/X: symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA % file /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, \ Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, not stripped If it says Linux in there somewhere, then that's why you're being told that ld-linux.so is required. On the other hand, if it's not your X server that's dependent on ld-linux.so, you can still test it's configuration with: % X -probeonly and see if it all starts up right, and the X server recognizes your card, the ModeLines you've set up etc. The next step would be to fire up the X server alone, and see if that gray screen comes up: % X and see what happens... does it start properly? If it does, and you see the gray X screen, press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to bring the X server down, and check the rest of the executables loaded by xinitrc (you'll find this monster at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc I think). One of the executables called in there is a linux executable, and that's what causes you problems. If you're too bored to check all this out, perhaps installing the linux emulation and libraries would be enough. But this might turn to be more trouble that finding out which one of your executables is Linux-ELF. However, if you want to have a native FreeBSD desktop, try and see if the version of gnome that you have, or enlightenment, or some other executable called by the xinitrc script is Linux-ELF instead of FreeBSD-ELF... Regards, -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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