Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 12:12:40 -0400 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Eddy Ramos" <e.ramos@deepground.com>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XWindows on the run Message-ID: <20030506161240.CDB563E0A2@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <000101c313d7$41543580$e20064c0@LAPTOP6> References: <000101c313d7$41543580$e20064c0@LAPTOP6>
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On Tue, 6 May 2003 15:56:13 +0200, "Eddy Ramos" <e.ramos@deepground.com> said: > Sorry to say so, I am a bit disappointed with my fresh installation of > FreeBSD Release 4.8 with X-Windows (KDE 3.1), because 'startx' simply > won't work. > > Here's what is says during startup: > > Fatal server error: > xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > xauth: creating a new authority file /root/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv):1: bad disply name ":0" in "remove" command > xauth: (argv):1: bad disply name ":0" in "remove" command > # > > Actually, I haven't done anything in particular but running the > installation CD-Rom. > Any suggestions how to get XWindows start? > > Eddy. This always happens to me when I use the graphical X config, for what reason I don't know. Text config works great - # xf86config or # xf86cfg --textmode Jud
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