Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:55:16 -0700 From: "Peter Michaux" <petermichaux@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cant run x-windows on fresh 6.1 install Message-ID: <3cbaf1c80605191555k30f6a22fxeb667e3446aa76a3@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE for i386 [1]. I selected the X-User install and (I think) all the defaults along the way. The only port I added was Ruby. I can log in as "root" or as "peter" and make and run a little ruby script. When I type "startx" I see an error which i have retyped below getconfig.pl: Evaluated 24 rules with 0 errors getconfig.pl: Weight of result is 500 New driver is "ati" (==) Using default built-in configuration (53 lines) (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) <default pointer>: Cannot find which device to use (EE) xf860OpenSerial: No Device Specified (EE) PreInit failed for input device "<default pointer>" No core Pointer Fatal server error: failed to initalize core devices and them more stuff Where did I go wrong with my install choices? When Xwindows starts will it boot into Gnome or KDE? If not, what? Thanks, Peter [1] Dell 450 MHz Pentium. I dedicated the entire hard drive to FreeBSD.
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