Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 12:11:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: mrherndon <mrherndon@mail.ev1.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: broken install of X Message-ID: <XFMail.010807121153.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <200108070339.AA35389488@mail.ev1.net>
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On 07-Aug-01 mrherndon wrote: > Hello...please be gentle with me...I am completely new to Free BSD > I just bought it at the Fry's electronics in Houston.TX...It says > it is version 4.2 Powerdesk if that makes it easier to know what > version I have. > > I am really excited that I am going to learn Unix, since I have > been messing around with different distros of Linux for about 10 > months...just took the plunge...anyway > > I got throught the install just fine....did the detailed > install...answered all the questions added gnome...selected KDE > for desktop...configured X (it looked good). Sometimes X looks OK during install but won't start afterwards. While not being an expert at this I usually get around it by fiddling with /etc/XF86Config and the specs for my monitor. So if you have selected an unfortunate combination of resolution and monitor horizontal and vertical frequency rates you can get this. I'd edit the /etc/XF86Config and see what happens. BTW. I never install X at the OS-install. If X fails then I will normally have to do everything over again (and again, and again...) /M > It does boot fine, > but......when I startx....it comes up with a broken pipe...was > there any problems with this in the version that I have? Any > suggestions on where to look to learn how to fix it? My experience > at least with Linux was the documentation assumes you have a high > proficiency level with the OS as far as the docs go....hoping the > docs here will be written a little more for the beginner...at > least give a complete breakdown before going into detail... > > Regards, > > Mel ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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