From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 1:39: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ev1.net (unknown [207.218.192.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58A837B403 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrherndon@mail.ev1.net) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 03:39:29 -0500 Message-Id: <200108070339.AA35389488@mail.ev1.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "mrherndon" Reply-To: To: Subject: broken install of X X-Mailer: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello...please be gentle with me...I am completely new to Free BSD I just bought it at the Fry's electronics in Houston.TX...It says it is version 4.2 Powerdesk if that makes it easier to know what version I have. I am really excited that I am going to learn Unix, since I have been messing around with different distros of Linux for about 10 months...just took the plunge...anyway I got throught the install just fine....did the detailed install...answered all the questions added gnome...selected KDE for desktop...configured X (it looked good). It does boot fine, but......when I startx....it comes up with a broken pipe...was there any problems with this in the version that I have? Any suggestions on where to look to learn how to fix it? My experience at least with Linux was the documentation assumes you have a high proficiency level with the OS as far as the docs go....hoping the docs here will be written a little more for the beginner...at least give a complete breakdown before going into detail... Regards, Mel ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the EV1 webmail system at mail.ev1.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message