Date: 25 Nov 2003 09:02:08 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: dillon ross <casp_semper@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help, i'm a newbie Message-ID: <44isl8o8bj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031125083135.92015.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031125083135.92015.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com>
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Please don't top-post, and a carriage return every 70 characters or so of text wouldn't go amiss either. dillon ross <casp_semper@yahoo.com> writes: > that didn't seem to help much or i'm doing something terribly > wrong. i did try to reconfigure x-server and went to xdesktop to > choose default desktop (no other config opts.). when i run startx i > get blank screen akin. typing afterstep at the command prompt gives > the error msg. "can't open display.". i'm doing all of this on my > laptop, with silicon motion graphics lynx em+ graphics card. is > there a min on the video ram that kde or any such need to operate? Your problem doesn't appear to be with KDE. It's with getting X running itself. I've got (I think; it isn't booted at the moment) the same kind of graphics controller in a laptop myself, and I configured it with xf86cfg, if I recall correctly. Look at the logs that X leaves behind when it starts up -- and what it prints to the console you started it from. startx is the right way to start it from the command line.
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