From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 8 21:15:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29539 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netcom15.netcom.com (jzero@netcom15.netcom.com [192.100.81.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29522 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jzero@netcom.com) Received: (from jzero@localhost) by netcom15.netcom.com (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5/(NETCOM v1.02)) id VAA01239; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Bixby X-Sender: jzero@netcom15 To: Tim Moony cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How come startx won't install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Tim Moony wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Bill Bixby wrote: > > > I tried installing Xwindows via your install program, trying a > > number of different tricks during a number of install attempts. > > Let's see, I install User, X-User and X-Developer, and all > > three at once. Nothing worked. How come xwindows won't > > install. I'm using version 2.2.5. Is there a bug? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > I've been using XF86Setup for prototyping X86. Go to /usr/X11/bin and run > XF86Setup and go through the steps, it sure beats xf86config. > > Don't worry about the high resolution, start from a working screen and as > you experiences grow you'll be able to manually modify the > /etc/XF86Config file. > > Good luck. Eventually you probably want to try KDE interface. > There is no /usr/X11/bin directory. The install program won't install the binaries. :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message