Date: 26 Jan 1998 20:41:54 -0600 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: "Marc Smith" <mercury@tir.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Windows X Message-ID: <87lnw27i4t.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: "Marc Smith"'s message of "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:31:19 -0800" References: <01bd2ae4$cbb6b220$2fb28cd1@computer>
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"Marc Smith" <mercury@tir.com> writes: > [1 <text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] > Hello, > I have a question having to do with the Windows X part of FreeBSD. I = > have installed FreeBSD and when I boot into it, I login in and I get a = > command prompt. How do I go into Windows X? I looked in the hand book = > and it said to type this "startx >& startx.log" and when I typed that = > in, it did not say anthing and did nothing. Please help. Thanks for your = > time. startx is the command to start the "X server", whcih handles the graphical windowing environment. the ">&" redirects all output (both normal output and errors) to a file, called "startx.log" in this case. So whatever is going on (e.g., an error message), is being directed to this file and that is why you don't see anything. Best bet would be to type "more startx.log"! At some point you'll probably want to configure your X Server --use XF86Config to do this. Have fun! -- Steve Farrell
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