Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:20:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X Windows Message-ID: <19980131142051.36569@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01BD2DC8.99E56A20@fast1>; from Frank Griffith on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 09:34:56PM -0600 References: <01BD2DC8.99E56A20@fast1>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 09:34:56PM -0600, Frank Griffith wrote: > I have FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a 486-66 unit with the following: > > Diamond Stealth64 vers 1.04 2 Meg Video Card > AST SVGA Monitor > > I used XF86Setup to do the configurations.The video card has > an S3 Vision964 chip on it, so I chose that card from the list. > > After many tries, I finally got the S3 server running and was able to > see the screen which said the server was running and I saved the > configuration file. > > However, when I try to startx, I get the following message: > > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH > > My path is set to: > > /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin > :/usr/local/interviews/bin/FREEBSD You probably need to link your server to X. I think it's called XF86_S3; enter: # cd /usr/X11R6/bin # ln XF86_S3 X Normally the installation procedure will do this for you at the end (but it uses a symlink for some obscure reason). Greg
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