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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:36:30 +0200 (IST)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Jack Wenger <jwenger@bentreality.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: X won't Fire
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961003203352.29596B-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <199610031752.MAA28853@mendota.terracom.net>

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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Jack Wenger wrote:

> Hi All
> I just installed (yep, a newbie question) FreeBSD 2.1.5 (walnut grove
> cd-rom) and got it to run fine. Now, when I try to run Xwindows, I get the
> reply "command not found". I've rebooted numerous times, and tried all of
> the commands to start X I could find (startx, xinit, xdm ...) NOTHING! This
> is logged in as root, as me (user name = jack), nothing seems to work. The
> install seems to have gone fine, so ne1 got any ideas? I'm running a vlb
You probably don't have /usr/X11R6/bin in your path. Edit your .cshrc (if 
you use that) or .profile is you use sh-driven shells.

> DX-4 120 (AMD), ide hd, ide cd-rom, a #9 gxe64 pro w/ 4mb vram, 16 mb ram,
> an NE2000 compatible NIC (arrrrgh), a HP Pavilion 14" monitor, and a
> Microsoft Serial mouse. Hell, while I'm at it, anyone no why it would take
> almost 2 minutes to get a login prompt from another machine on my network
> (Win95 box) to telnet in? Whew, lot's of questions!
Don't know.

> Later;
> |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'-*<oO^Oo>*-'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|	
> | Jack Wenger, Owner        |       Bent Reality Graphics |
> | jwenger@bentreality.com  <^> http://www.bentreality.com |
> |     "Think of it as evolution in action"; Louis Wu      |
> |                           |                             |
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'-*<oO*Oo>*-'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 

Nadav



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