From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:12:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14817 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14760 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from inga.augusta.de (root@inga.augusta.de [193.175.23.65]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA09110 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rabbit by inga.augusta.de with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRmiJ-004cs3C; Sun, 24 Nov 96 23:07 MET Received: by rabbit.augusta.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRjCd-000A0GC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:22 MET Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Am I Missing Something? In-Reply-To: <3294E418.5C4D@tiac.net> X-url: http://www.augusta.de/~shanee/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:22:51 +0100 From: Andreas Kohout Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, In article <3294E418.5C4D@tiac.net>, kbarker@tiac.net (Keith Barker) writes: > My problem is that I'm trying to install XFree86 which came on the same > CD-ROM as the FreeBSD os (2.1.5). Following the instructions in the book > seems to have put all the files on the disk. However, after following > all the steps to install the software, XFree86 will not start. I've > followed the steps for an "automatic" installation, and I have also > configured XFree86 manually by following the instructions in the book, > with no results. Any suggestions? how do you start X, with startx or xdm? Try startx >& ~/.X.out (csh) and look at X.out. Are there any errors? Do you run xf86config and tried to run X -probeonly, errors? -- Gruß, Andy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Der Mensch hat die Atombombe erfunden, eine Maus würde niemals eine Mausefalle bauen! shanee@rabbit.augusta.de Zirbelnußtown __________________________________________________________________________