From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 11:32:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nirvana.internal.wildfire.com (firebox.wildfire.com [12.11.163.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D439537B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sorcerer (sorcerer.internal.wildfire.com [172.28.10.100]) by nirvana.internal.wildfire.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13529 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:32:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from drvince@ix.netcom.com) From: drvince@ix.netcom.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:37:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Installing X 4.0.1 Message-ID: <39A3E194.2421.18E88EAE@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.0 on a spare machine at home and had the default (3.6?) version of XFree86 running on it. Being adventurous, I attempted to upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1 (to better support my NVidia TNT card). I followed the instructions on the XFree86.org website carefully, got all required packages and used the Xinstall script to configure. It seemed to go pretty well, in that I could use XFree86 to invoke the graphical configuration of the monitor and card, et al. However, when I ran startx (using KDE as my desktop) I got to the screen with the weave pattern and the X marking the mouse cursor. The X could move, so the machine was not hung (I could also kill the server with Ctrl-Alt-Bksp), but I never got a window- manager up. After some attempts to reconfigure it, mainly by copying back the contents of the old X dirs and re-installing the new X (so that I had my legacy setup) I could get past the weave-pattern screen, but the server died with "cannot find libqt.so". I located that file, so it is on the system, but it is not looking in the right place. Can someone point me to docs on configuring the new X and installing a proper window manager for it? Does anyone have a favorite windowmanager that works with KDE? Thanks for the help... Vince To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message