X Window problem

[Gary and El Byrnes]

Hi

I went back and repeated the steps of mounting and enabling the swap. I guess first time I did it I didn't notice the warning saying "the system wasn't unmounted cleanly, run fsck" and therefore mount and swapon didn't work. So I ran fsck and afterwards mount and swapon. Everything after went fine.

I came to the step of seeing the grey screen. I don't see grey but I see a dark bue on and the mouse cursor moves around, and it also works in non-gui mode.

I am not too sure if what I see is OK. Please let me know before I go on to copy the file.

Thanks
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eduardo Viruena Silva 
  To: Gary and El Byrnes 
  Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 7:15 PM
  Subject: Re: X Window problem


  On Tue, 6 May 2003, Gary and El Byrnes wrote:

  > Hi Eduardo
  >
  > Thank you very much for your response.
  >
  > I have started the process you mentioned. I have gone through step one fine.
  >
  > I got to the point where I edited the /etc/ttys file back to what it
  > was. When I tried saving it, I got a message that the file is read-only
  > and use ! to override.

  you did not mount your file systems:

  mount -a
  swapon -a


  >
  > What can I do now?
  >
  > Thanks a lot.
  >
  > Elvira
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: Eduardo Viruena Silva
  >   To: Gary and El Byrnes
  >   Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
  >   Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:56 PM
  >   Subject: Re: X Window problem
  >
  >
  >   On Tue, 6 May 2003, Gary and El Byrnes wrote:
  >
  >   > Hi Everybody
  >   >
  >   > I am new to FreeBSD. Just intalled v 5.0.
  >   >
  >   > I went into /etc/ttys and changed "xterm on secure" to have graphics and
  >   > having a problem after that. The GUI wouldn't come up. The screen keeps
  >   > coming to a dark blue with a mouse cursor cross on it then disappears.
  >   > How can I fix this please?
  >
  >   1) go single user:
  >
  >   reboot your computer [if it is still on, press ctrl-alt-del]
  >   when freebsd boots a countdown starts from 9 to 0, before it
  >   reaches 0, press "space"
  >
  >   type:
  >   boot -s
  >
  >   your computer will boot but it will stop asking for a shell
  >   and suggesting:  /bin/sh       [press enter].
  >   type
  >   mount -a
  >   swapon -a
  >
  >
  >   2) fix the problem:
  >
  >   now, edit /etc/ttys and restore "off" in the line containing xterm.
  >   save this file
  >   reboot your computer by typing:  reboot
  >   or press control-d.
  >
  >   you must be sure that you have correctly configuring X before
  >   changing the line containing "xterm" in /etc/ttys.
  >
  >   3) configure X
  >
  >   To configure X you can try:
  >
  >   X -configure
  >
  >   it will try to find out which your graphic environtment could be,
  >   and will write a file:  XF86Config.new  with the resulting configuration.
  >
  >   Try:
  >   X -xf86config ./XF86Config.new
  >
  >   to test your configuration and, if it fits to your graphical environment,
  >   you will see a gray screen and you will be able to move your mouse cursor.
  >   Press Ctrl-Alt-BACKSPACE to leave this graphic screen and copy this file
  >   to /etc/X11/ directory with the name XF86Config:
  >
  >   cp ./XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config
  >
  >   if the configuration you get does not fit to your graphical environment,
  >   try to find out what graphic card, monitor, mouse, keybard you have and
  >   try
  >   xf86cfg -textmode
  >
  >
  >   4) xdm
  >
  >   Once you have a functional configuration for your graphical environment,
  >   then and only then you can change the line you changed.
  >
  >   >
  >   > I have a flatscreen monitor and I am not too sure what video card I have
  >   > - some cheapie.
  >
  >
  >   >
  >   > Thanks a lot in advance.
  >   >
  >   > Elvira
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