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Greg wrote: | 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: |all of the output snipped<
I'm coming in on the middle of this and someone may have already given you this advice but I would highly recommend you read Phil Lavigna's "Fun With Fink" Document. The copy I have is dated February. It's excellent. You should be able to find it with Google.
Given all your trouble, you may want to remove Fink and X and start over. Open your Terminal.app and use:
sudo rm -rf /sw Return
sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11 Return
sudo rm -rf /Applications/XDarwin.app Return
then: rm .xinitrc .cshrc Return
The rm = remove and the -r and -f means recursive and forced.
Once you have this accomplished you can start a brand new Fink installation from scratch. So you know, the first command gets rid of fink, the 2nd and third commands get rid of your X server, and the final command gets rid of your configuration files for X and TCSH respectively.
If you then start your new installation following "Fun With Fink" you should have no problems. It's excellent and quite detailed on getting started.
Hope you find this helpful. I'm pretty new to this myself. I have followed the directions above and it's worked for me.
Oh one last thing. Note the space between X11R6 and /etc. Need to ensure that there's a space there otherwise you won't remove anything...you're actually removing 2 different directories recursively. - -- Scot Johnson | GPG Public key ID: 10AB70CE Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu "Here come the people in grey, to take me away." The Kinks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin)
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