Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

doug doug at fledge.watson.org
Tue Jan 29 12:11:43 PST 2008


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



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