On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:06:55 -0800 (PST) Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, I feel terrible posting such a lame question but I have been > text-only since I installed FreeBSD 4.3 (now on 4.5) OS on my box in > early February, and I really miss using a GUI but cannot for the life > of me (or the lives of all my future offspring)... get XFree86 4.2.0 > to work!! You've given us no clue about the symptoms (except for the mouse bit, which you seem to have solved) so I'm going to take a wild-ass guess: You're trying to start X as a unprivileged user, and it refuses, but it works if you try it as root. The last message you see indicates that it can't open the log file. If this is the case, then there are two alternative fixes: 1. Edit /etc/ttys (as root), find the line that starts xdm, and change the "off" to "on", then "kill -1 1" 2. In /usr/X11R6/bin, find Xwrapper, or install it from the ports or packages. Still in that directory, make a symlink X -> Xwrapper, and make sure Xwrapper is suid root. I may be wrong about some details of 2, as I've always used 1. Use Google to search the archives of this list for Xwrapper for more explanation. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
