From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 22:41:37 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 4148737B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B42A43FA3 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:41:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ej.cerejo@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net ([68.160.106.19]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030408054135.TMYF15325.out006.verizon.net@laposte.net>; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:41:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3E92610C.90204@laposte.net> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 01:41:32 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sukhbinder Singh References: <20030405012315.A92644@skytrackercanada.com> <20030405021720.B93482@skytrackercanada.com> <20030405164107.A9466@skytrackercanada.com> <20030407002050.A33915@skytrackercanada.com> <3E912280.2060908@laposte.net> <20030407102846.A6906@skytrackercanada.com> <3E920278.8070104@laposte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [68.160.106.19] at Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:41:34 -0500 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation 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, 08 Apr 2003 05:41:37 -0000 Please run this command: ls -d /var/db/pkg > ~/installed_pkgs.txt this will create a test file in your home directory of all installed ports, please paste the contents, I wanna see what you have installed. Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > I typed xf86config and the system took me to a step of X configuration and > the updated the config file in the X11 directory. However, when I typed > startx at the command prompt. It gives me a lengthy message where some of > the important part of the messeage read as " fatal server error, no screen > found" and X window system failed to run. any help in troubleshooting this > will be helpful. > > -Singh > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: E. J. Cerejo > To: Jud > Cc: Sukhbinder Singh ; David Banning > ; > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 6:58 AM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation > > > >>You need to configure XFfree86 before attepting to run it, run >>xf86config to configure and then stype startx. >> >>Jud wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 23:00:52 +0800, Sukhbinder Singh >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I downloaded the port, packages and the distributions that I needed. >>>>However, I am unable to run these packages. Like for instances, I want >>> > to > >>>>run the X - Windows environment. I am unable to run it. I went to the >>>>specific directory for example the XFree86 - 4 directory and typed >>>>"make && >>>>make install clean" at the command prompt but however I am unable to >>>>get the >>>>X - windows environment running. >>> >>> >>>If this means ppp is working for you now, that's certainly good news. >>> >>>What was the result of trying to build the XFree86-4 port? Was there an >>>error message or not? If there was no error, you will next need to >>>configure XFree86 for your system. (By the way, 'make install clean' >>>will do what you want, without the need of the first 'make.') >>> >>>Jud >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >