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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:58:56 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>, "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems with the X server
Message-ID:  <19981015125856.C503@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981014215109.26909C-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>; from BEAUPRE Antoine on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:53:47PM -0400
References:  <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD84A@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.981014215109.26909C-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>

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On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 21:53:47 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77) wrote:
>
>> I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 using a custom install.
>> I installed anything that seemed relevant for X (installing only
>> the necessary servers, i.e. the SVGA, ATI and one last one,
>> plus KDE for the windowmanager).  When doing the setup
>> of XFree86 (using the GUI), at the end, when it attempts starting
>> the server, all I get is a blank screen and nothing more.  The
>> error message I get from the setup program (after a CTRL-ALT-
>> BACKSPC) is that the server is running on an other (or an
>> invalid) virtual terminal.  When attempting to run it using
>> startx (I have a .xinint file in my home dir containing startkde)
>
> Some little thing(s?):
> 1- The .xinitrc must be a shell script, i.e. the first line must be
> something like:
> #! /bin/sh

Well, I've been getting by quite nicely without this entry in my
.xinitrc for over 8 years now.

> 2- The .xinitrc file must be executable (chmod u+x .xinitrc).

And it's not executable..

Greg
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