From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 9:27:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from al.et.byu.edu (al.et.byu.edu [128.187.21.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2510437B6CE for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from porter@et.byu.edu) Received: from localhost (porter@localhost) by al.et.byu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA04528 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:27:18 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: al.et.byu.edu: porter owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:27:17 -0600 (MDT) From: C Porter Bassett To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X tries to start 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 I am having an odd little X setup problem. I run XF86Setup, and it works mostly fine. After everything is set up, it is time for it to test the configuration. The grey hatched screen with the x mouse pointer shows up, but I never get the little buttons that ask me if the configuration is correct. It just skips right to where it should go if the configuration was successful. Then, when I execute startx, I get the same grey screen with the X mouse pointer. X then shuts down. Every time. Granted, this is not a typical install. I am trying to get X to run in FreeBSD on a vmware machine running in NT. I get the same results whether I choose generic VGA server with 16 colors and 640X480 or whether I install the vmware tools for freeBSD. The only difference is that with the tools, I get a larger grey screen before it blanks out. Has anybody out there managed to get FreeBSD working in a virtual VMWare machine with X working? Thanks in advance for any help I receive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message