You got it right, Mike. I reinstalled the system, plus Xorg 6.7.0 and KDE-base 3.3.0 with pkg_add. KDE starts fine. Thanks, Edward
> On Saturday, 16. April 2005 19:13, Edward Lichtner wrote: >> HI, >> I have a hard time starting KDE on my newly installed FreeBSD 5.3 box >> (i386). I have xorg 6.8.2 and KDE 3.3.0. I created an .xinitrc file and >> added exec startkde into it. When I startx, xorg starts up then I get the >> following message : >> "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation". > > The actual error should be somewhere on your console where you ran startx - > posting the output you got there here will help us spot the error. If you > find it hard to gather the backlog from the system console, try redirecting > the output of startx to a file. > > My shot-in-the-dark guess is that the packages are mismatched - FreeBSD 5.3 > shipped with Xorg 6.7.0 and KDE 3.3.0, so I'm assuming that you're using the > latest Xorg packages for 5-STABLE, but the KDE packages from 5.3-Release - > which probably doesn't work, since those KDE packages were built with and for > Xorg 6.7.0. But there's no way to tell for sure without the actual error. _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
