thanks.. it works now, i can see a grey screen with
lots of small white dots, still need to do some work i
suppose :-)

/bruno

--- Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bruno wrote:
> []
> > [fluxXo:~] bruun% startx
> > tcsh: userclientrc=/Users/bruun/.xinitrc: Command
> not
> > found.
> 
> This is a well-known bug in Apple's X11. Their
> startx does not work if 
> it is run from a tcsh command line. The correct fix
> is to remove the 
> extra first line in the startx script that was put
> there because Apple 
> used their own broken C preprocessor to compile X11.
> 
> So what you should do is
> 
> 1. Edit the file /usr/X11R6/bin/startx (make a copy
> of it first if you 
> are afraid to destroy something) and remove the
> first line which begins 
> with "#pragma GCC set_debug_pwd". Use your favorite
> editor, vi, emacs, 
> pico etc. With vi, you would type the following
> 
>    sudo vi /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
>    dd
>    :x
> 
> 2. Complain to Apple about this. They know about the
> bug (which concerns 
> not only startx, but more than 800 files in
> /usr/X11R6), but they won't 
> move their fat ass unless many people complain about
> it.
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
>
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