On Saturday 16 April 2005 19:06, Edward Lichtner wrote: > Hi all, > I just installed FreeBSD (using a CD burned from the > 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso image) on a NEC machine with a Celeron D335. > I have xorg 6.8.2 (upgraded via portupgrade) and KDE 3.3.0 (installed via > Internet as binaries, with pkg_add, after upgrading xorg). > I then created an .xinitrc file by copying from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit > into my home directory and adding exec startkde at the beginning of the > file, after the first few lines. > When I type startx, xorg starts OK, but I then get "Could not start > kdeinit. Check your installation". > Kdeinit is in /usr/local/bin and the kdelibs package is installed and > recognised by pkg_info. > Any idea what went wrong ?
You shouldn't copy xinit and you shouldn't use 'exec' to run startkde. Just put only 'startkde' (without the quotes) in your ~/.xinitrc instead. HTH, Dan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
