[Dragon12]

I was trying to install 4.0 binaries on my laptop w/ 5.4, but during the install my roomate thought it would be fun to play with the circuit breakers in the house and I lost power during the install and it messed every thing up. So I reinstalled 5.4 and now X won't start the way it did previously. I followed the instructions that is listed in the FreeBSD handbook but to no avail. The error I get is :

Fatal server error:
Sever is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "myhostname:0" in remove command
waiting for X server to shutdown
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "myhostname:0" in remove command

I did try http://wiki.X.org and they suggested "ps aux | grep 'cat /tmp/X0.lock'" to see if the server was running but it was not in the list. "rm -rf /tmp/X0.lock" seemed to remove it but I still have the same problem.
I also did a search on google and saw that a number of people have had the same problem but no sulution to the problem. Xdm just keeps looping after I sign in.
I want my fluxbox back!
Any help would be greatly apprecated.

[Dragon12]

In an odd way I managed to solve the problem. I reinstalled the O/S and did not use Xorg -configure and the like, this time, lo and behold everything works! Everything seemed to work "out of the box" so to speak. Don't know why, but I'll take it.

[optyk]

Excerpt from the Xorg manpage:
Starting with version 4.4, Xorg has a mechanism for automatically
generating a built-in configuration at run-time when no xorg.conf file
is present.

However, if you want to modify any tunables you will need to generate a config. If everything works like you want then congrats ;)

[Dragon12]

Thanks for the info, when I went to the page I only looked for what was relevalent to me at the time. I should start reading ALL of it. Live and learn I guess. X0rg is a BIG improvment over XFree86. The funny thing is I rememeber following what was listed in the FreeBSD handbook last time.