From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 15:12:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6887B16A40F for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:12:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@msu.edu) Received: from sys21.mail.msu.edu (sys21.mail.msu.edu [35.9.75.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F5043D49 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:12:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@msu.edu) Received: from jerrymc by sys21.mail.msu.edu with local (Exim 4.52 #1) id 1GN9wR-0005Pn-4i; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:12:51 -0400 References: In-Reply-To: From: "Jerold McAllister" To: Arindam Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:12:44 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Virus: None found by Clam AV Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Configuration Woes 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, 12 Sep 2006 15:12:53 -0000 Arindam writes: > >> I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a >> lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII >> box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting >> it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of >> SDRAM@100MHz, and I installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my >> Seagate harddrive ... connected to the Primary master IDE interface. >> Well, installing FreeBSD for the first time is more compatible with an ambitious weekend than an lazy one - as you probably have discovered. It does take considerable work, though the rewards are commensurate. >> .... >> If you can wade through this gibberish, please help. >> >> Cheers, >> Andy > > Some updates: > > Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg > installed is 6.9.0. > I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf > either. From the command-line I ran "xdm" and the GUI started ... I > could login ... and then that's about it. > > 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems > protocol. I can't say much about the mouse. I usually let it figure out things itself and it works. Is it a plain ps2 mouse (with round ps2 connector)? I just do the mouse test during sysinstall and it works. > 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a > jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can make do with a very > minimal one. But I want a minimal one at least now, I just have to get > this running or I can't sleep. If you don't want a fancy GUI desktop, then skip KDE and Gnome. I prefer to use Afterstep. It installs nicely. It is found in ports at /usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep It can be a little confusing at first to set up and configure - as are all X things - but after getting it configured for me, it gives me what I need: several windows for logging in to various hosts, a button to bring up Firefoxand X support for whatever I run, such as OpenOffice or Xpdf or Xmahjongg and a couple of other games, etc. The only thing I haven't managed to my liking is getting it to create anchor buttons for each thing when I bring it up. It only does so for the minimized windows. I got that in one version, but it seemed to mess up the focus control and click to bring forward action so I gave up on that. I edited: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to make it work my way. I think you can make individual .xinitrc files in home directories as well, but I wanted mine to work for all of my small handful of accounts so I edited the main one. Have fun, ////jerry > Cheers, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >