Date: Mon, 16 Dec 96 02:36:38 -0800 From: "Eric Kylstra" <erick@accessone.com> To: "questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X-Windows - trying to get working Message-ID: <9612161037.AA00493@pulm1.accessone.com>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 06:56:28 +0100 (MET), Bogusz Jelinski wrote: > > >On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Eric Kylstra wrote: > >> Excuse a few dumb questions here. I have installed 2.1.5 and all the >> basics are working (bash and users are set up). As part of the install >> I took the setup options after the main install to set up XF86Config. >> >> I may have made a mistake when I accepted the default to place >> XF86Config in /etc. I also copied it to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 after >> things were done. >No mistake here. >> >> At this point none of the programs in /usr/X11R6/bin work even though >> they have the executable permission is set. >What kind of message is displayed on the screen. I bet - xinit file not >found >The most common mistake is to run X without having set the PATH correctly. >That is /usr/X11R6/bin should be added > > > >> Do I need to compile things from xc/programs/Xserver with make >> Makefile, make Makefiles, and make depend? >No need! >Cheers, > >Bogusz > I'm afraid all the path stuff is correct. What I get when I try to run startx, X or any other X-windows program is that a program by that name doesn't exist. This is even though the permissions are correctly set to executable. Any other ideas? Eric Kylstra erick@accessone.com
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