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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 1995 03:54:38 +0200
From:      Peter Bechtold <peterb@muc.de>
To:        Joseph Steinberg <steinber@SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, question@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X Problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950713035303.13022M-100000@fns>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950712214100.6823D-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>

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On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Joseph Steinberg wrote:

> My FreeBSD installation saga ;-( continues...
> 
> I  have configured the X-server and some other things, but when I run X
> all I get is a grey (i.e., black and white display) screen that goes way
> off my monitor, with a mouse prompt 'X', and a frozen system (well, sort
> of frozen, -- the mouse moves the mouse pointer, but that is all I can
> do. I have to hit the 'RESET' key and reboot -- and pray the the
> filesystem is in order -- to do anything).

How do you start X ? xinit ? startx ? xdm ?

I suppose you just say 'X' ... Use xinit, startx or xdm !

Peter

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