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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

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