Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:52:13 +0200 (CEST) From: "SirDice" <sirdice@xs4all.nl> To: "Tom Wuyts" <tom.wuyts@student.kuleuven.be> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfree86 broken on bsd : error code 1 Message-ID: <17106.134.146.0.22.1190368333.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <637E7946-F60A-4731-9B5C-8F4FF9FB529F@student.kuleuven.be> References: <637E7946-F60A-4731-9B5C-8F4FF9FB529F@student.kuleuven.be>
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On Thu, September 20, 2007 15:05, Tom Wuyts wrote: > hello, > > > I installed freebsd 6.2 by burning the 2 iso images from the site and > installing them. After the install he wont start gnome. startx fails. You'll need to configure X before it's able to start. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > then I tried to install gnome. I followed the instructions on FAQ 6. > (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q6). > > the installation fails after a couple of hours while i'm running the > "make install clean" command. XFree86 appears to be broken. So I > tried to install it with pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/XFree86-aoutlibs.tbz. > > This he won't do because there are no a.out libraries. > > any suggestions? Yeah, don't use XFree86. Use Xorg. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html Cheers, Remko C.
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