From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 21:10:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22636 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:10:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netcom8.netcom.com (jzero@netcom8.netcom.com [192.100.81.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22539 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:09:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jzero@netcom.com) Received: (from jzero@localhost) by netcom8.netcom.com (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5/(NETCOM v1.02)) id VAA24180; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:09:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:09:05 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Bixby X-Sender: jzero@netcom8 To: Greg Lehey cc: Tim Moony , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How come startx won't install In-Reply-To: <19980313111721.61043@freebie.lemis.com> 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 Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wed, 11 March 1998 at 23:46:33 -0800, Bill Bixby wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 8 March 1998 at 21:15:18 -0800, Bill Bixby wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> 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? > >>>> > >>>> 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. :( > >> > >> OK, how about some more details. How are you trying to install? What > >> happens? When do you decide that something is wrong? > > > > Well, I'm trying to install X-windows. But the binaries won't install > > and the install program doesn't create the X11 directory mentioned > > in the 'env' path variable. I choose X-windows, I 'commit', the > > install program runs for about an hour copying over /bin files, etc. > > then it stops, asking me if I want to add some last minute packages. > > I say no, attempt to configure X-windows from the install program, > > and the install program says X-windows isn't installed. Bummer! :( :( > > This is really not nearly enough detail. Do you have a directory > /usr/X11R6/bin? If you do, you need it in your path. Otherwise tell > me which install program you mean. Give me the names of the programs > you run. Give me the messages they output. > > Greg > No, I don't have a directory name /usr/X11R6/bin on my system. And I don't even have a directory named /usr/X11R6 or anything like that (there's a reference to a /usr/X11/bin in the path variable when I do an 'env' and there is no directory named /usr/X11 either. :( Last night I reinstalled just X-user from /stand/sysinstall via ftp to ftp.freebsd.org/.25/FreeBSD and when I tried to configure X-windows from the install program it said X-windows hadn't been installed. :( :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message