From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 11:37:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02217 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (exim@iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA02207 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from gateway.cre8tivegroup.com [204.255.227.120] by iglou.com with smtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0xxdIW-0006rS-00; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:37:21 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01bd2c3c$bba5b120$42b08cd1@computer> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:34:55 -0500 (EST) Organization: The Creative Group From: Patrick Gardella To: Marc Smith Subject: RE: X Windows Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Did it give you any errors? Or just spin? Did you write the file to /etc/XF86Config or somewhere else? Did you set the symbolic link to your xserver? (Most of these are options to XF86Setup. Since you ran XF86Setup, you ran X, so you know it works! Patrick On 28-Jan-98 Marc Smith wrote: >Hello, I have a question about X Windows and FreeBSD. I have installed >FreeBSD. I did the average user with the X Windows. I ran XF86Setup and >setup X Windows. I was told to run "startx" when I was done running setup >for it. When I ran startx it didn't do anything. It did some hard drive >activity and went back to the prompt. Am I do something wrong? Please help. >Thank you for your time. > >Marc Smith