Hi Harry, > I haven't seen any section of FAQ devoted to setting up X.
Whatever Nick may say about deficiencies... In fact, http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#X at least references /usr/X11R6/README. > Is it supposed to just work after installing the base tgz files? Sort of. But you know, producing a working X configuration file tends to be a hassle, no matter what OS you use. It has become easier during the last few years, but still, it's not fun. > Or maybe I'm just blindly overlooking the section? Well, you appear to be blindly overlooking lots of things. Try looking a bit harder by yourself before asking zillions of simple questions here, or people will soon start flaming you for lazyness. ;-) [...] > xbase39.tgz xetc39.tgz xfont39.tgz xserv39.tgz xshare39.tgz > Untarred them in root as directed. > Probably some config is required but I see no help about that. > Running `startx' gets a number of library errors. > xauth: can't load library 'libXau.so.9.0' > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: can't load library 'libXext.so.9.0' [...] Oh well. Here we go again. Try $ ldconfig -r | head -n2 Nothing about /usr/X11R6/lib round there, right? So read $ man ldconfig next, then scan $ less /etc/rc looking out for "ldconfig". There's something about configuring /usr/X11R6/lib into ld.so.hints at bootup. Of course, when you install X after bootup, and do not reboot, this code never gets executed. When you know what you are doing, you hardly ever need to reboot OpenBSD unless you want to use a different kernel, but when you reconfigure stuff without rebooting, you need to run the required configuration commands manually, of course. Once you understand what i said so far, try (as root) # ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib Use $ ldconfig -r | head -n2 once more to see what you just changed by doing so. After that, ld.so ought to be able to find your X libraries. That's all rather basic stuff, though. Yours, Ingo -- Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.usta.de/
