From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 6:28:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com (c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com [24.20.97.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD96E37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 06:28:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) Received: from there (pqbqjy@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f7SDP0a44994; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:25:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) Message-Id: <200108281325.f7SDP0a44994@c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mike Porter To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't start X Windows Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:24:59 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <000601c12eb5$29630cc0$8f6896d1@granitepost.com> <20010827083240.C3234@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010827083240.C3234@ns2.wananchi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Sunday 26 August 2001 11:32 pm, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I am sorry to say this but you _really_ have to go through the paces with > xfree86config to generate an XF86Config whose details you're sure of. That > file will be in /etc/X11/ if xf86cfg will run, it will give you a graphical interface similar to xf86setup on 3.3.6 (unless you are running Xfree86 3.3.6? That is the default for FreeBSD still, but IIANM Xfree86 -configure is a 4.1 feature). When I first installed XFree 4.0.2, using the binaries from xfree86.org, it worked fine. When I reinstalled my system from scratch, and used the ports version, to gain the benefits of locally compiling stuff, it doesn't run. I have heard of it failing to run for others, as well, but I have heard from lots of people that it DOES run for them. The best I can say is, try it first, then use xf86configure if that fails. > login as root then type > xf86cfg if that fails, then type: > xf86config > > answer all those questions wisely. > > then try again startx > mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message