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Date:      03 Dec 2002 14:45:03 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        manish jain <emmjanex@hotmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems with i810 + FreeBSD4.6 + Gnome
Message-ID:  <1038944703.323.65.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <BAY1-F97i9yzu23LiC1000076b3@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY1-F97i9yzu23LiC1000076b3@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:09, manish jain wrote:
> 03 Dec, 02
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 4.6 with Celeron800 & Intel810 chipset and am facing 
> problems with my X-server.
> 
> Before I detail the problem, I'll make a brief note of options I have
> enabled/disabled in my system configuration :
> 
> 1) agp_load has been enabled in /boot/loader.conf (Before enabling
> agp_load, I created agpgart in /dev through MAKEDEV)
> 2) Option NoDDC has been enabled in the XFree86 configuration file
> 
> 
> Now the problems. When I start gnome (as root), I get the message :
> 
> 'Could not find the address for . This may prevent gnome from operating
> correctly. It may be possible to correct the error by adding to /etc/hosts'

What is the hostname for your machine?  Does it have a permanent IP
address?  If it does, add an entry for it in /etc/hosts.  If not, add an
alias to 127.0.0.1 that points to your hostname.  For example:

127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.marcuscom.com
gyros.marcuscom.com gyros

Joe

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