On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:05 , Thoughts... wrote:
> Finally got Xfree somewhat installed, but cannot launch it from the > console, ever - only though the alias MacOS - can anyone help me out? > > -thoughts... > > localhost:~] thoughts% startx > -> here the systeme assume you are under Darwin-only and not OS-X otherwise it would have started XDarwin first: 2002-03-06 12:22:11.013 XDarwin[531] XDarwin 1.1 Running (rootless or fullscreen) inside Mac OS X window server. > > XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) > Release Date: 18 January 2002 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is > newer than the above date, look for a newer version before > reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) > Operating System: Darwin > Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root -> this message, you don�t care > Display mode: IOKit -> This is for Darwin-only system (see man XDarwin), and there start the problem because I suspect you are not under darwin but under OS-X but the server assume you are under Darwin box. Under OS-X you shoud have: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . Display mode: (Rootless or Fullscreen) Quartz ... > Failed to connect to the HID System as the window server! > > Fatal server error: > Quit the Mac OS X window server or use the -quartz option. -> The diagnostic looks good Usually with no options the server selected should be the good one (OS-X dependant one) but maybe your basic configuration is to try to start Xserver as if the system was Darwin-only (maybe take a look at man XFree86, be carefull that under OS-X there is no XF86Config file, may be the pblem is in xdm-config ???). however I think that if you want to start an X-session on the top of OS-X you cannot bypass the use of the -quartz mode (see the man page for XDarwin). Otherwise you have to startx under a Darwin-only partition (for that, I can�t help you). The easy way to start X under OS-X is to use one of these 3 commands: startx -- -quartz (then you will have to choose between fullscreen or rootless) (or you can directly choose the mode) startx -- -fullscreen startx -- -rootless This should work if your server is here (should be OK) and you have a .xinitrc somewhere (should be true also but maybe you will want to add it in your home directory and change it) . in any case XDarwin will be started first, with XFree86 and you will be in quartz mode. Hope it helped... Eric DUFOUR _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
