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Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Sun Dec 7 20:29:00 UTC 2003


camuflag wrote:

>
> Dear Sir,
>
> My name is Ziad Fazah. Indeed, after having installed Freebsd version 
> 5.1 on my pc, I found out that after having got at startx command, 
> there was something written as an error: (EE) Unable to locate /open 
> config file
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile log file: /var/log/XFree86
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found.
>
> Thus, Iam asking you amiably: how can I solve this problem? Besides, 
> Iam running on Redhat version 9.0. Please, tell me what to do in order 
> to work out this matter. In anyway, I shall be awaiting your response 
> as soon as possible, and thanks a lot for everything.

You need to configure XFree86 (the X Window system) to know about your 
hardware, etc.  There is a great chapter in the handbook on how to do this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

Eric


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