Date: 01 Oct 1998 17:39:02 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: "ACETECH Technologies" <eric.reardon@acetech.co.nz> Cc: <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <xzppvcc9trd.fsf@ringhorni.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "ACETECH Technologies"'s message of "Thu, 1 Oct 1998 23:56:54 %2B1200" References: <000001bded32$95d8c100$b06b60cb@cdr>
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"ACETECH Technologies" <eric.reardon@acetech.co.nz> writes: > Well im new to UNIX and FREEBSD , but have managed to install BSD and XF86 > onto my pc .BSD appears to be running just great but i cant for the life of > me seem to be able to get XWindows to run , First of all, this should go to -questions, not -bugs. -bugs is for bug reports and not installation problems. > When i type "Startx" from either $ {sh} or # {root} i get the following ; > execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/x {errno 2) > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 >From 'man 2 intro': 2 ENOENT No such file or directory. A component of a specified pathname did not exist, or the pathname was an empty string. You haven't selected an X server. You probably haven't configured X at all. Run XFree86Setup and specify which graphics hardware, mouse and keyboard you have. XFree86Setup will select the appropriate X server and symlink it to /usr/X11R6/bin/X, which is what startx expects. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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