Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:02:30 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: Vladimir Melnik <raccoon@raccoon.kiev.ua> Cc: All <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001116144737.62996B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20001110021449.A5888@irpin.net>
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I do understand the message but here are a couple of things to check: 1) I assume you have run XF86Setup or xf86config and xdm is up and going. If that is the case, startx is a script so you can look at all the commands it issues. One or more of XF86_SVGA, XF86_VGA16, etc should be in /usr/X11R6/bin. The default script using files in $HOME tostart your window manager. 2) All that being said, I have always installed this as a distribution and recently read on questions or stable that it is a complex install and is best done from sysinstall. Should you choose this route, you can do that by pkg_delete, and perhaps make clean, you need to consult the man pages and or the handbook and then running /stand/sysinstall choosing the post install configuration option. On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Vladimir Melnik wrote: > Hello. > > I've just installed XFree86 from /ports, but when I trying to run > startx, I got just it: > > Authentication failed - cannot start X server. > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > What it seems to be? > > Thanks. > > -- > V.Melnik > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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