Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:53:47 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with the X server Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981014215109.26909C-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD84A@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77) wrote: > I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 using a custom install. > I installed anything that seemed relevant for X (installing only > the necessary servers, i.e. the SVGA, ATI and one last one, > plus KDE for the windowmanager). When doing the setup > of XFree86 (using the GUI), at the end, when it attempts starting > the server, all I get is a blank screen and nothing more. The > error message I get from the setup program (after a CTRL-ALT- > BACKSPC) is that the server is running on an other (or an > invalid) virtual terminal. When attempting to run it using > startx (I have a .xinint file in my home dir containing startkde) Some little thing(s?): 1- The .xinitrc must be a shell script, i.e. the first line must be something like: #! /bin/sh 2- The .xinitrc file must be executable (chmod u+x .xinitrc). This is about all I had to say! :) spidey > I still get the same result. I have installed qt-1.33, but I also > get strange errors (PID could not get read, and xterm: fatal IO > error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0". > > I usually wait about a minute (i.e. not just a few seconds) before > I shut down the server with the keystrokes. > > Any idea where I can get a more complete list of error messages, > or what I can do to fix this problem? It's quite a strange problem > from a fresh install. All commandline stuff works fine (or at least > seems to from the limited amount of things I've tried). > > Thanks for your help! > > Manu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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