Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/12/12 andrew clarke : > On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com) > wrote: > >> I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. >> I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. >> >> When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:37:37 -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there > have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have to manually select one or the > other. It is possible to run XFree86 - the X that "just works" (TM)? I'm n

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com) wrote: > I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. > I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. > > When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. > It's just a script, so I copied

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Friday 11 December 2009 04:56:39 pm you wrote: > Well, you now need to either select X during install or install > it from ports after the installation. > > jerry > I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. > I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. > > When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. > It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2

startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-11 Thread Steven Friedrich
I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition. Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist. Why didn't these tw