I Know I'm close! I can feel it. I've installed Fink, DevTools, XDarwin (which successfully launches via the icon, but Not the terminal) and Ethereal, yet when I try to start ethereal from the terminal, I get following printout: BTW, thanks to all for your patience.
Welcome to Darwin! [12-253-166-131:~] greghyde% startx XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Darwin Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. Display mode: IOKit Failed to connect to the HID System as the window server! Fatal server error: Quit the Mac OS X window server or use the -quartz option. OsVendorFatalError AbortDDX Quitting XDarwin... giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. [12-253-166-131:~] greghyde% startx -- -rootless 2002-03-21 21:48:36.258 XDarwin[326] XDarwin 1.1 Running rootless inside Mac OS X window server. XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Darwin Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root Display mode: Rootless Quartz Screen 0 added: 1152x747 @ (0,21) Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0). cat: /Users/greghyde/.Xauthority: No such file or directory ^C waiting for X server to shut down Quitting XDarwin... login: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" ........ xinit: unexpected signal 2. [12-253-166-131:~] greghyde% ethereal Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [12-253-166-131:~] greghyde% ethereal _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners