From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 1:27:23 2002 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 6DE9C37B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 01:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DF043E4A for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 01:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp249.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.139] helo=moo.holy.cow) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17V6cx-0001Bz-00; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 01:27:12 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B039450CC2; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:29:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:29:53 -0400 From: parv@subdimension.com To: Tony Sim Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help.. Message-ID: <20020718082953.GA57865@moo.holy.cow> Reply-To: f-q Mail-Followup-To: Tony Sim , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG would you please type your reply either beneath or intermingled w/ another reply, not above it? in message , wrote Tony Sim thusly... > > ahhh switch to NetBSD? is that as good as FreeBSD? well, for one thing it does support card bus in its own stable branch. it also runs on many many more different platforms/hardware which may or may not matter much. > i really wanted to use FreeBSD... for card bus support run the -current branch, or get an old style NIC for -stable branch, as said earlier. see the *handbook* for comparison somewhere on freebsd site... http://www.freebsd.org/ > i can't find the port that i just installed~ (i did up to "make > install"... and it seems to have done the job, but i can't find > it... it was gview for X windows during the installation process, messages are generated (by default) which indicate where the files are being installed and how. a port's information is stored in /var/db/pkg (by default). see man(1), ports(7), pkg_info(1) man pages for more information. ,---- brief introduction to man ---- / | "()" refers to a particular man page section. | in above case, you would run 3 separate commands ... | | man 1 man | | man 7 ports | | man 1 pkg_info | `--- brief introduction to man ---- for now, you could do... pkg_info -L -x gview | egrep -v '^$|^(Info.+|Files):$' ...to see the installed file list. programs/commands are stored in "bin" directory. see hier(7) for more information. in addition, buy a decent book which introduces Unix; search google... http://www.google.com ...for "unix introduction newbie" or similar terms for on-line material. > where is this thing T_T) (what the hell is that "T_T" that you write?) > and my sound card isn' recongnized... why~~ (and those "~~"?) > i went through so much to get my ati display adapter to be > recognized... but i can't even find the place to configure for > sound~ that would be in the kernel; info related to that is also available thru the freebsd handbook. > sorry to give you guys all the burdens that i should probably > solve on my own well, that's one way to learn about anything. don't despair, you would solve the problems on your own ... eventually. > T_T (there it is again.) > but where did i go wrong~ perhaps diving in too fast w/o the background & preparation, and/or having unrealistic expectations about software/hardware configuration? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message