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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 2015 06:51:58 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "lokadamus@gmx.de" <lokadamus@gmx.de>
Cc:        German <gentgerman@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X won't start
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1510170648060.72605@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <56220475.1000208@gmx.de>
References:  <20151015131224.212aa292@asterius.asterius.net> <56220475.1000208@gmx.de>

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On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, lokadamus@gmx.de wrote:

> On 10/15/15 19:12, German wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>>
>> I am brand new to FreeBSD ( just installed it a few hours ago). So I
>> installed base system, then I made pkg install xorg, pkg install
>> lxde-meta and trying to run X. When I issue "startx" I got the
>> following:
>>
>> server error, no screens found. Unable to connect to X server.
>> Connection refused. xauth: ( argv) 1: bad display name "dawkins:0" in
>> remove command.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks
>>
> Made this too:
> pkg install xorg-server
>
>
> With "pkg install xorg" it install only the client from xorg, i think.

"server error" from the error message above is produced by xorg-server.

x11/xorg is a meta-port.  The package includes all the dependencies.

What we still really need to see is /var/log/Xorg.0.log.



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