From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 5 10:57:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B286314F0C for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.037 #1) id 11YYFi-0005Np-00; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 19:19:50 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Paul Horechuk" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X won't start In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 23:17:45 -0400." <031a01bf0ee0$49dc49e0$73f8d7a5@paul.docucom.ca> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 19:19:50 +0200 Message-ID: <20696.939143990@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 04 Oct 1999 23:17:45 -0400, "Paul Horechuk" wrote: > What am I missing? Probably just a symlink called X which points to the appropriate X display server. Have a look in /usr/X11R6/bin: cd /usr/X11R6/bin ls -l XF86_* X You'll probably get a list of display servers like XF86_SVGA. You'll probably also get this error message: ls: X: No such file or directory If you do, select the XF86_FOO driver that you use (let's say XF86_SVGA for this example) and create a symlink to it like this: ln -s XF86_SVGA X Now do the same ``ls -l'' command as before and you'll see something like this: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Jun 8 04:40 X -> XF86_SVGA Oh yeah, that reminds me, you should be doing this as root. ;-) Now try startx again. :-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message