startx does nothing

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Tue Nov 29 06:42:02 PST 2005


On Tue, November 29, 2005 7:35 am, elekktretterr at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> So i got to compile Xorg from pkgsrc, after configuring xorg.conf
> and trying to run startx, nothing happens. not even one line of output
> produced. it would just sit on startx. However, running just X or xinit
> seems to work.

It may be writing to the error log /var/log/xorg.0.log after you run
startx; check there for any sort of error.

Try moving the xorg.conf file out of the path, in case a setting in that
file is causing it.






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