From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 7:57:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C799037B401 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.spod.org (opal.spod.org [195.92.99.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166AA43E65 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yann@spod.org) Received: from yann by mail.spod.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17lsbp-0006J5-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 15:55:21 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:55:21 +0100 From: Yann Golanski To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Goofed up X-Install Message-ID: <20020902145521.GA22391@kierun.org> References: <000801c25290$47573120$2e00a8c0@dogbert> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000801c25290$47573120$2e00a8c0@dogbert> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Quoth Brian McCann on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:51:52 -0400 > Hi everyone. I think I screwed up my X-Windows install and need a hand > fixing it. I figured that since the ports collection installs all > pre-reqs for you, if I went to /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and ran make, it > would put in everything I need...man was I wrong. When I run "startx", I > get and error that it can't find xinit, and when I try running "XFree86 > -configure", it can't find it. Anyone know how/what I have to install > to recover from this? I assume I probably can just run a make on > /usr/ports/x11/XFree86, but I don't want to make a bad situation worse. Yes, you need XFree86 installed. Look at the web page for which graphics card you have and install the version that supports it -- either 4 or 3. After that you'll need to set X up, which can be tricky. Use the rather good /stand/sysinstall method and it should work well. You need to configure a mouse, keyboard, screen (monitor) and graphics cards. -- yann@kierun.org -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message