Okay, I've slowd down. I've studied. I've read. And, most importantly, I've decompressed. I think I'm ready to seek guidance once again, at a time when my knowledge is not so impaired:
Based on the helpful links that were referred to me, I've tried installing xDarwin via the gnumac and xonx installers and via fink and followed instructions to by adding strings of text to certain files. I've tried launching in by double-clicking on the X, and from the command line, and in one shape or an other, the response has been the same. It seems that no matter what, X is not being mapped correctly and is not access necessary dependancies. Last night, I couldn't even remove it via fink. Below is the litany of output that I've compiled from console, the terminal, and text edit. somewhere in there, I sense, is a pattern that will pull it all together: via terminal: 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 Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). Thus no job control in this shell. Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root Display mode: Full screen Quartz Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0) Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. OsVendorFatalError AbortDDX Quitting XDarwin... Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. Display mode: Full screen Quartz Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0) waiting for X server to shut down Via Double-click (As reported by Console): Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. OsVendorFatalError AbortDDX Quitting XDarwin... Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. Display mode: Full screen Quartz Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0) waiting for X server to shut down Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. OsVendorFatalError AbortDDX Quitting XDarwin... X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Quitting XDarwin... --- via couble-click. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 October 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. ---- XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 October 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 Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). Thus no job control in this shell. /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/Resources/startXClients: exec: xinit: not found 2003-06-18 01:01:14.600 XDarwin[1461] X client process terminated with status 127. Display mode: Rootless Quartz Screen 0 added: 1280x833 @ (0,21) Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0). error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy Quitting XDarwin... This what I found when I cat .xinitrc file. Numerious decipherable marking have been removed to consume space cat .xinitrc __dyld_make_delayed_module_initializer_callsThe kernel support for the dynamic linker is not present to run this program. /usr/X11R6/binXFree86 XFree86 displaysXDarwin Darwin/Mac OS X IOKit displaysXDarwinQuartz Mac OS X Quartz displaysXDarwinStartup Auto-select between XDarwin and XDarwinQuartzX:0xterm-geometry+1+1-nloginsh--XINITRCHOME%s/%s.xinitrc%s: warning, no client init file "%s" XSERVERRC.xserverrc%s: warning, no server init file "%s" unexpected signal %d. Server error. Client error. X server to begin accepting connectionsgiving up. waiting for %s no server "%s" in PATH Use the -- option, or make sure that %s is in your path and that "%s" is a program or a link to the right type of server for your display. 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