Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

[Kimi]

On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <siraj.shaikh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/01/2008, doug <doug at fledge.watson.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
> >
> > > One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx"
> > > but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing
> > > something here? I did choose for "Windows X" during the FreeBSD setup
> > > - shall I do a port upgrade?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > This is really a new thread. The handbook Chapter 5, The X Window System has the
> > steps to follow. If your video card is support, it will just work.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html
> >
> >
>
> I installed FreeBSD 6.3 and asked for X during the step. The link only
> shows me how to add the X package. Shall I add the package right on
> top now, or shall I remove X first, and then install the port/package
> after that?
>

or better still, if you can tel us the error message we can help much
better, other wise all we can do is second guess and redirect you to
the handbook which should solved most of your problems, also looking
back in the mailing list archives might give you a solution to


> Thanks

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Regards,
 Kimi