From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 12:29:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E5216A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5A943FCB for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com ([192.168.42.24]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hB7KSv6T004234; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:28:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FD38D72.4020806@centtech.com> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:28:34 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: camuflag References: <3FD39BF7.3020601@globo.com> In-Reply-To: <3FD39BF7.3020601@globo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's very important replying my email, please X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:29:00 -0000 camuflag wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > My name is Ziad Fazah. Indeed, after having installed Freebsd version > 5.1 on my pc, I found out that after having got at startx command, > there was something written as an error: (EE) Unable to locate /open > config file > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile log file: /var/log/XFree86 > Fatal server error: > no screens found. > > Thus, Iam asking you amiably: how can I solve this problem? Besides, > Iam running on Redhat version 9.0. Please, tell me what to do in order > to work out this matter. In anyway, I shall be awaiting your response > as soon as possible, and thanks a lot for everything. You need to configure XFree86 (the X Window system) to know about your hardware, etc. There is a great chapter in the handbook on how to do this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------