From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 15:44:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E74106566C for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:44:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidianwalker@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6276E8FC0C for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iagz16 with SMTP id z16so8239081iag.13 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:44:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=QaRqlm4x6e2o5OmeLCigurk/T6Jehd0fy2e16VDelcU=; b=BaU3dwKTBIxHQBFs4H7m+57rBjSxwHdZr9CihjC8QQo/XdZl2Zel/kJmj5Uzn7vB9p 8pKbZSLrTUA8rKZ29JJHoD1nGfbe1dfcWKsmhc25+1eReV2X13ghX228dx4zm9MY3xUc 9bguRiJ7vZxof4rEOuA9MV3h21Jp18e7j4pl4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.151.195 with SMTP id f3mr14339866icw.19.1326813428353; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:17:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.229.67 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:17:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:47:08 +1030 Message-ID: From: David Walker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Using Gnome ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:44:45 -0000 A colleague and I were talking about operating systems and I said, hey lets install FreeBSD and see what Gnome looks like. I did an install at work but ran out of time so I brought another machine home but I'm having trouble. I burnt an ISO of 9.0 and installed it. I did a pkg_add ... # pkg_add -r gnome2 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 I tried to enable Gnome by editing /etc/rc.conf ... gdm_enable="YES" gnome_enable="YES" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome Note the difference there. If I reboot I get a message to the console that gdm is starting but it goes to a console login. Is there anything else I need to do? Best wishes.