From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 16:16:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from host2.hostmatters.com (host2.hostmatters.com [209.239.36.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA0B37B71A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@cahostnet.com) Received: from laptop ([208.143.52.83]) by host2.hostmatters.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2N0GZY18127; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:16:35 -0500 Message-ID: <022601c0b32e$71684420$0d01a8c0@casystems.net> From: "Ben O." To: Cc: References: <020701c0b31f$e4d200e0$0d01a8c0@casystems.net> <20010322183645.A782@guinness.osdn.com> Subject: Re: Kernel config - which way? Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:16:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My Xwrapper is installed, it's at /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper and when I issue it I get a bogus window there as well. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Mock" To: "Ben O." Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:36 PM Subject: Re: Kernel config - which way? > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 at 17:30:54 -0500, Ben O. wrote: > > OK, I upgraded my OS couple of days ago. At that time I was using the > > GENERIC kernel. When I upgraded I used the method: > > > > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL > > # make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL > > > > Then I installed a new kernel using the > > /usr/sbin/config -g mykernel > > make depend > > make > > make install > > > > Was this correct? Do I now need to use the first method again or I'm OK. > > Erm, no. Those both do the same thing. If you have a populated > /usr/obj (i.e., you built world), the first will work. If you don't > have a populated /usr/obj, you're better off with the 2nd method. > > > Lastly, why can't I run startx as a user? I'm running XFree86-4.0.3 > > and KDE2. When I run xdm or kdm I don't get my KDE desktop, I get > > some bogus window. Why, what do I need to configure to get my KDE > > desktop or any other windows manager. > > Read the message after installing X. You need to install the xwrapper > port. > > - jim > > -- > - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - > - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message