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Can't start KDE desktop in FreeBSD
hi all,
i just finished a clean install of freebsd, then did KDE via the portupgrade method. then i edited my .xinitrc file to start kde. however, when i run startx, it opens up and then exits, citing a couple errors. with the help of this thread: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/arc...hp/t-27464.html i was able to fix a couple of the issues. however, three remain: 1) (EE) Unable to locate/open config file 2) (EE) Failed to load module "vmware" (module does not exist, 0) 3) (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not extis, 0) there is no xorg.conf file in etc/X11. any idea why that is? did something go wrong with my install? is there a way to generate a basic one? i'm running FreeBSD 7.1 or whatever the latest stable is in vmware workstation 6. |
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Please don't reference external links in the forums - people aren't going to visit the link ... esp when it leads to a 404
Can you post the full error report instead of just snippets As regarding to configuring X - read the handbook, it explains the configurations quite well http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...dbook/x11.html |
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The link corey_james provided should guide you in setting up a conf file, especially section 5.4.
'vmware' is a display drive for X.Org -> make sure you've got an up to date x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware installed. fbdev is related to frame buffers, not sure what the state of that is under FreeBSD but there is an x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev port.
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Terry - can you change your avatar - i really REALLY don't like spiders!
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Could u run X before u even tried kde or did u just go straight for it..
u need to run Xorg -configure. this generates and xorg.conf.new in your home dir. test with X -config ~/xorg.conf.new if u get working x, then copy to /etc/xorg.conf. other then that, do as the others have said and sort the drivers. |
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Sorry but I'm a bit spider like myself and don't have another that looks as nice at 60x60px lol
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Both locations are correct.
from http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xorg.conf.5.html Xorg uses a configuration file called xorg.conf for its initial setup. This configuration file is searched for in the following places when the server is started as a normal user: /etc/X11/<cmdline> /tmp/Xorg-KEM/etc/X11/<cmdline> /etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG /tmp/Xorg-KEM/etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG /etc/X11/xorg.conf-4 /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/xorg.conf /tmp/Xorg-KEM/etc/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname> /tmp/Xorg-KEM/etc/X11/xorg.conf-4 /tmp/Xorg-KEM/etc/X11/xorg.conf /tmp/Xorg-KEM/lib/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname> /tmp/Xorg-KEM/lib/X11/xorg.conf-4 /tmp/Xorg-KEM/lib/X11/xorg.conf Last edited by Dazhelpwiz; 23rd May 2008 at 05:35 AM. |
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