From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 11:38:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA14943 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA14937 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA29611; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:36:30 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:36:30 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Jack Wenger cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: X won't Fire In-Reply-To: <199610031752.MAA28853@mendota.terracom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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; > |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'-**-'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| > | Jack Wenger, Owner | Bent Reality Graphics | > | jwenger@bentreality.com <^> http://www.bentreality.com | > | "Think of it as evolution in action"; Louis Wu | > | | | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'-**-'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Nadav