Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:37:08 -0400 From: drvince@ix.netcom.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing X 4.0.1 Message-ID: <39A3E194.2421.18E88EAE@localhost>
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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
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