From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 22:04:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18568 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18520 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA23628; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:03:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: JS cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems In-Reply-To: <35164B8C.2C2A@p3.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, JS wrote: > Gents, > > Seems I am having a small problem getting the X server to start using > startx or xinit. > > Whenever I invoke X using either of the two I get the following error: > > X: 250: Syntax Error: word unexpected (expecting ")") Sounds like /etc/XF86Config line 250 is malformed. > Also, in the book it states that there should be a /book directory on > the first CD (which there isnt) where would I find that directory? Look under /xperimnt/. > PS: If anyone has any problems configuring Kernel PPP let me know...I > spent most of the night getting it to work. I sat down one day and with fairly naieve setup made it work in 10 minutes. What problems are you having? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message