Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:27:13 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@asu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg warning & initial installation modifications Message-ID: <424500C1.2080403@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <562fd27dd8db8f70bad6f387a1932221@asu.edu> References: <562fd27dd8db8f70bad6f387a1932221@asu.edu>
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Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > Hello all and thank you for your help. Hello also, and you're welcome, assuming, of course that I give any :-D > > I have FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with the Minimal pre-configure > install and I have installed X.org 6.8.2. Anyways, I notice when > I do a startx, that I get the following output: > > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "iqast.hsd1.ga.comcast.net:0" in > "remove" command > > X still works, however I want things to run as smoothly as > possible. In addition to this problem, I was wondering what the > best way of installing the base documentation (like > manpages for the system commands such as tar) would be? As for the "bad display name" error, I'd first suspect that something's not resolving correctly. Do you have your hostname set in /etc/hosts also? X needs to know where "iqast.hsd1.ga.comcast.net" is ... AFAIK, you could set that to 127.0.0.1, if that's what you really want to name your machine. However, since you got that name via DHCP, I'd think it might be something changeable...anyways, do some looking around to see if your machine can "find itself" (e.g. ping your hostname, etc.) As for the best way to install the man pages, you'd probably be OK to start sysinstall again, go to the Post-installation configuration menu, and then IIRC "select additional distribution sets" or somesuch. The docs should be there, and it'll get you the other stuff (like the handbook) that can be of great help in your development as a FreeBSD user.... Kevin Kinsey > > Thank you all for your help. For some further insight into the > system, I wanted to mention that when I installed it and it > asked me to configure my network via DHCP, I did and it came > up with hsd1.ga.comcast.net. as the domain (including the > trailing period) and I named the computer iqast. Anyways, > before I clicked OK, I deleted the trailing period just because > it did not look correct. I have no idea if this little tidbit of > information is beneficial or not. I am new to the FreeBSD > world (this is my first time playing with it) and I am horrendous > at configuring networks, so I apologize now if the problem above is > trivial.
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