Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 06:54:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: john mitchell <john_p_mitchell@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem installing x Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106190654060.17792-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <20010618211434.55025.qmail@web14005.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, john mitchell wrote: > I recently got FreeBSD 4.3 installed on the 2nd hard > drive of my Intel PC. After the install, I went back > to install Xwindows from the package list on the CD. > It seemed to allow me to install the X server and then > KDE, but when I type startx at a shell prompt, it > tells me it couldn't open the config file. Does this > ring a bell with anyone? How can I remedy this? Did you set up your /etc/XF86Config file? There are some config programs in /stand/sysinstall that can help if you didn't. Jaime -- "[A]s we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Ben Franklin, http://earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/chapt10/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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