From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 20 4:55: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (malkav.snowmoon.com [209.23.60.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56ED637B403 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 04:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 17796 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2001 10:55:00 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 19 Jun 2001 10:55:00 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 06:54:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime To: john mitchell Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem installing x In-Reply-To: <20010618211434.55025.qmail@web14005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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