From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 09:37:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8B337B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 09:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEF143F75 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 09:37:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF39B56E3F; Tue, 6 May 2003 12:37:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=smtp.us2.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Tue, 06 May 2003 12:37:02 -0400 Received: by smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id CDB563E0A2; Tue, 6 May 2003 12:12:40 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "Eddy Ramos" , "freebsd-questions" Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 12:12:40 -0400 X-Epoch: 1052239022 X-Sasl-enc: AsnxefAzadzWrO+9Py4GQg References: <000101c313d7$41543580$e20064c0@LAPTOP6> In-Reply-To: <000101c313d7$41543580$e20064c0@LAPTOP6> Message-Id: <20030506161240.CDB563E0A2@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> Subject: Re: XWindows on the run X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:37:07 -0000 On Tue, 6 May 2003 15:56:13 +0200, "Eddy Ramos" 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