From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 16:58:16 2005 Return-Path: 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 B05E316A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:58:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770DB43D2F for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:58:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=yoda.datawok.com) by smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1D3Gsx-0003oa-TZ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:58:16 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:58:54 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200502211137.58722.hindrich@worldchat.com> In-Reply-To: <200502211137.58722.hindrich@worldchat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502211058.54961.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bce314363e055177963a09c31684a6f42e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 cc: Peterhin Subject: Re: Trying to get X working. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:58:16 -0000 On Monday 21 February 2005 10:37 am, Peterhin wrote: > I have installed Freebsd 5.3, and I am at Chapter 5.6 of the > handbook, and really can't figure out where to go from here. > How do I start XDM? or do I do that with 'startx'. If so I have a > further problem, in that when I try 'startx' I get 'Fatal server > error; no screens found' also 'X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit > kill of server shutdown). xauth: (argv):1: bad display name > "Quercus:0" in "remove" command > Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a newbie to CLI, and > the NIX environment. > > > Peter > > "Civil Liberties are at the whim of those in power" If you haven't followed the directions in Chapter 5.4, go back and do that first. Before xdm (or kdm or gdm) or startx will work, you need to have a good /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. startx is for starting X Window from the command line after bootup. xdm, kdm and gdm are daemons start X Window at bootup and provide a GUI logon. Best of luck, Andrew Gould