gnome: "startx: command not found", It must be a silly mistake,

[vaclinux]

Dear guys,
Have installed gnome in my laptop, n do reboot after that,but i got login to normal CLI (no GDM,or X), then when I(root) run
startx
output : startx: command not found.

I have read some thread that related to this problme

Sticky (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4224)
Xorg 7.4 upgrade - report (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1721)
Gnome Issues and Possibly X issues (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4504&highlight=startx:*command*not*found)

But cant get way to solve it,

I installed gnome through port
# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
# make clean
# make install
And have added
echo gnome_enable="YES" >> /etc/rc.conf

And i have checked status some daemon,
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus status
output: dbus is running as pid 993
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald status
output: dbus is running as pid 1130

Any one have an idea on it?
Thanks

[roddierod]

try:

/usr/local/bin/startx as root...I'm not going to say anything about running X as root, I leave that to others.

[DutchDaemon]

Do not run X as root.

There.

[SirDice]

Have a look at the output of pkg_info. Is xorg installed?

If not, just do the following and it will build the missing bits.


# cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
# make install clean


Gnome2 does pull in parts of X as a dependency but apparently not everything.

[vaclinux]

@ roddierod and dutchdaemon: there is still not working,

@sirdice: Yes, i dont xorg package, now i am still installing, i hope this could be the solution,
thanks for the responds

[DutchDaemon]

Just for completeness' sake: the advice not to run X as root was not a troubleshooting suggestion. Simply do not run X as root, ever. It is a security nightmare waiting to happen. It's probably even unadvisable to run X as a wheel member.

[roddierod]

@vaclinux
My post is mote in that I assumed you had xorg installed and that your root user's path didn't contain /usr/local/bin


It's probably even unadvisable to run X as a wheel member.

Wow, never thought of that. That could start a long discussion some other time...:)

[vaclinux]

Guys, tq, it is just working well, tq for the advice.
I just missed the xorg package, everything is just smooth, keyboard and mouse, are great.
may be my next thing, is the video drive, just ensure i have proper(or may be the most suitable) ati video driver.
Again tq