From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 08:40:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2292216A401 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:40:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from "cyb."@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B67513C442 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:40:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from "cyb."@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Mar 2007 08:40:52 -0000 Received: from pD952F9CE.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO core2duo) [217.82.249.206] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 09 Mar 2007 09:40:52 +0100 X-Authenticated: #4870692 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1960Uwyg8F6nSviDjZgkvCV3T3T26bkN5dOjYlWbp k2x8bYh7CizM0f Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:41:00 +0100 To: "Thomas H. Bellus" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Andreas Rudisch" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Win32) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Subject: Re: Install Freebsd 5.4 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: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:40:54 -0000 On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:46:49 +0100, Thomas H. Bellus wrote: > I have not been able to see the screens for configuring X for my monitor > or > video card. I have ver 5.4, I have used both the standard install and the > custom install. I have used the most recent install documents on the > internet and I have a copy of Complete BSD by Greg Lehey. > > > I am new to BSD but I want to get this install to work. I can not get > anytype of graphical interface. 1.) Why do you not install FreeBSD 6.2 if you are new? 2.) read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Andreas