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Date:      Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:08:18 -0400
From:      User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
To:        "Michael J.Turner" <Mike@inethouston.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86
Message-ID:  <20010727100818.B6205@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <003301c1164d$3a6401d0$0f04a8c0@Mike>; from Mike@inethouston.net on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:35:46PM -0500
References:  <001101c1161b$db7b3f20$0f04a8c0@Mike> <20010726224923.C4568@localhost> <003301c1164d$3a6401d0$0f04a8c0@Mike>

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As it was put forth by Michael J.Turner on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:35:46PM -0500...
> yeah, i have it there. and i have done the
> xf86config many times but still i get
> those errors. also i tired XFree86-4 and
> when i do xf86cfg (the graphical config) it
> seems to act very strange like just spolts
> of squares and what not. So i treid diffrent
> video cards and monitor still no luck. i cant understand why.
> i have done xwindows before and kde.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "User & Ian Patrick Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
> To: "Michael J.Turner" <Mike@inethouston.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:49 PM
> Subject: Re: XFree86
> 
> 
> > As it was put forth by Michael J.Turner on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at
> 04:42:23PM -0500...
> > > well i have decided to go back to XFree86-3.3.6_9.
> > > when i do a startx heres what i get.
> > >
> > > anyone help with that one?
> > >
> > >
> > > bash-2.04$ startx
> > > execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (errno 2)
> > >
> > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> > > giving up.
> > > xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X
> server
> > > xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> > >
> >
> > Do you have an XF86Config file in /etc?  I believe this is the name of
> > the configuration file in XFree 3.3.6.  If not, run xf86config.
> >
> > Ian

	If you went back to 3.3.6, then you need to either lower the kern
secure level, or install wrapper from the ports.  You may need to do both,
honestly I forget, it's been awhile.

Ian


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