From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 21:50:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA06916 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06911 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00320; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:50:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Richard Heller cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html In-Reply-To: <199608071613.MAA04015@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Richard Heller wrote: > I'm having trouble setting up X windows. I've got it pretty much up and > running, but I can't get it to read the .xinitrc file. What could cause > that? Wrong permissions? How are you starting X? > Also, I keep getting messages like "getty repeating too fast" and "repeated last > message 4 times." What are those error messages trying to tell me? One of the gettys is broke. Look at /var/log/messages to see if getty is complaining in the log. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major