problems using the GUI

[Ken Stevenson]

Kris Wieschhaus wrote:
> 
>   I've been using FreeBSD for about a month now as I will be presenting
>   it to my class in a couple of weeks. I am having a problem getting the
>   the Windows X System to work. I have been trying for the last 2 weeks
>   to get it to work. I have looked in the FAQ's section and the FreeBSD
>   Handbook, but I am still unsuccessful.
> 
>   When I run startx I get
> 
>   (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
>   (EE) <default pointer>: Cannot find which device to use.
>   (EE) xf860OpenSerial: No Device specified
>   (EE) <default pointer>: cannot open input device
>   (EE) PreInit failed for input device "<default pointer>"
>   No core Pointer
> 
>   Fatal server error:
>   failed to initialize core devices
> 
fbdev sounds like the Linux frame buffer device. What's fbdev doing in 
a nice operating system like FreeBSD?

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Ken Stevenson
Allen-Myland Inc.