From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 9 18:56:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01691 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:56:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01669 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:56:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id SAA36842; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:56:01 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id SAA20775; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:53:44 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: YU-TING WEI cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question about Xwindows In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, YU-TING WEI wrote: >Dear sir, > >I am a beginner in FreeBSD. I tried to install this operating system on >my machine but I found out I can not open the Xwindows after finishing >installation. Whenever I enter the command startx or xinit, there is a >message "can't find startx(/xinit)" came out. The other functions work >properly. Could you help me solve this problem? Is there a directory named /usr/X11R6 on your computer? Does your path have the /usr/X11R6/bin directory? $ echo $PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/home/jason/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin Make sure X is actually installed and that your path statement is correct. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message