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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!ameritech.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.77.64.8!news.broder.com!usenet-control From: Jeremy Cooper <nobody@broderbund.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help!!! X11R6 (NetBSD 1.2 Sun/3) config problems ! ! ! Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 17:25:07 -0700 Organization: Broderbund Software, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <33669163.7510@broderbund.com> References: <5joba7$rje@news1.radix.net> Reply-To: nobody@broderbund.com NNTP-Posting-Host: jeremynt.broder.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) To: lturner@nyx.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5864 Lowell O. Turner wrote: > I retrieved the X11R6 tar files in the NetBSD Sun/3 directory about > a couple of months ago. Last month I managed to get NetBSD (v1.2) on > the aforementioned Sun. About two weeks ago, I began to install X11R6 > on this machine. I figured that since the distribution was pre- > compiled, installation & configuration would be easy. I was astonished > to note that this distribution did not appear to have ANY > configuration data or information. Also, no man pages were included. Don't give up hope. The NetBSD/sun3 X11R6 distribution comes in several different parts, mostly to save diskspace. You have probably retrieved the 'bare-minimum' set. You will find the X11R6 man pages in the Sparc X11R6 distribution - the man pages are the same for all architectures in X11. ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/X11R6/X11R6.man.tar.gz > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors" shows the following: > > xdm error (pid 105): Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting > xdm error (pid 105): server open failed for :0, giving up > xdm error (pid 99): Display :0 cannot be opened It appears as though your X server isn't running. Have you tried running any other programs through a normal X session (ala startx) like xterm? -J