From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 8:15:16 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 D21C737B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vms1.rit.edu (vms1.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BB343E42 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:15:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) Received: from dogbert ([129.21.129.47]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KM0ULS849EN7E9K7@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:15:07 EDT Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 11:14:49 -0400 From: Brian McCann Subject: RE: Goofed up X-Install In-reply-to: <20020902145521.GA22391@kierun.org> To: 'Yann Golanski' , 'Brian McCann' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <000901c25293$7bb95990$2e00a8c0@dogbert> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 Ok...when I ran the install for 4, it was really quick, so I checked pkg_info, and it was already there. So I went to /stand/sysinstall, and tried all the options for XFree86 configs, and all of them tell me they are not installed. What even odder, is in pkg_info, it lists XFree86-Clients-4.2.0_5, fontEncodings, fontScalable, and libraries, but no server. Is this right for 4? I looked on X's homepage, but it's not much help. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Yann Golanski Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:55 AM To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Goofed up X-Install 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message