[bob8338]

I installed X11, but it won't run. I get the following in the terminal after entering "startx". Any advice is appreciated.


ip24-251-231-161:~ xxxx$ startx

## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1152x870 @ (0,0)
/Users/xxxx/.xinitrc: line 1: /sw/bin/init.sh/sw/bin/startkde: Not a directory

waiting for X server to shut down Quitting XDarwin...

[P]

In your home directory, you have a file called .xinitrc. Since the name begins with a dot you cannot see it in the Finder, but you can edit it by typing

pico ~/.xinitrc

in the terminal.

You don't mention how you installed X11, but it seems to me that you have an .xinitrc that thinks that you have kde installed - and installed via Fink, at that - while you don't really have it installed.

Either modify your xinitrc, if you know how, or replace it with the default from /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc