Re: Trying to get X working.
On Monday 21 February 2005 10:37 am, Peterhin wrote: I have installed Freebsd 5.3, and I am at Chapter 5.6 of the handbook, and really can't figure out where to go from here. How do I start XDM? or do I do that with 'startx'. If so I have a further problem, in that when I try 'startx' I get 'Fatal server error; no screens found' also 'X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill of server shutdown). xauth: (argv):1: bad display name Quercus:0 in remove command Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a newbie to CLI, and the NIX environment. Peter Civil Liberties are at the whim of those in power If you haven't followed the directions in Chapter 5.4, go back and do that first. Before xdm (or kdm or gdm) or startx will work, you need to have a good /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. startx is for starting X Window from the command line after bootup. xdm, kdm and gdm are daemons start X Window at bootup and provide a GUI logon. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to get X working.
Have you configured your xorg.conf file correctly? Use 'xorgconfig' to build a basic xorg.conf file and then try 'startx' again. Andreas On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:37 -0500, Peterhin wrote: I have installed Freebsd 5.3, and I am at Chapter 5.6 of the handbook, and really can't figure out where to go from here. How do I start XDM? or do I do that with 'startx'. If so I have a further problem, in that when I try 'startx' I get 'Fatal server error; no screens found' also 'X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill of server shutdown). xauth: (argv):1: bad display name Quercus:0 in remove command Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a newbie to CLI, and the NIX environment. Peter -- GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.txt Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B 0372 D25F CC81 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Trying to get X working.
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:37 -0500, Peterhin wrote: I have installed Freebsd 5.3, and I am at Chapter 5.6 of the handbook, and really can't figure out where to go from here. How do I start XDM? or do I do that with 'startx'. If so I have a further problem, in that when I try 'startx' I get 'Fatal server error; no screens found' also 'X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill of server shutdown). xauth: (argv):1: bad display name Quercus:0 in remove command Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am a newbie to CLI, and the NIX environment. Peter Civil Liberties are at the whim of those in power First of all you ought to produce a xorg.conf file via issuing xorgconfig.Than edit line 8 in /etc/ttys,change off in on and if you have installed gdm,change xdm in gdm.. (xdm,kdm..etc) with vi. Something like vi /etc/ttys,i will let you change the contents,after that has been done,ESC+:+wq! will actually write the file to HD and exits vi.The rest is a matter of taste and further config with cvsup +portupgrade and or other apps. have fun ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
