Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:12:00 -0500 From: Robert Warning <cleeker@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I get into GUI? Message-ID: <6af120a4db06747d6bdef035433f752c@akanon.micrognome.net> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F94PaqhT4UHtWK000139aa@hotmail.com>
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Check out the following link http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html You may want the nvidia drivers. http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html Check back if your still stumped. RW On 2004-01-23 10:21:13 -0500 Claude Martin <claude_martin_41@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, my name is Claude, and I'm new to FreeBSD. I've installed it on a > hard > drive by itself, and I get it to boot. The install seemed to have > completed > without a glitch. > > My problem is that I expected the booting process to finish in the > graphical > user interface. Instead, it stops at a CLI prompt. Maybe I did > something > wrong. I tried re-configuring by booting off the CD, and I selected > KDE as my > user interface. But something in the configuration goes wrong, and it > tells > me to select a simpler interface. I've tried a couple of the others, > with the > same result. > > I did not modify anything in the kernel. Is that the problem? My > computer has > a Soho P4X400 Dragon Lite MB, an Intel Celeron 2.2 GHz processor, 256 > MB of > DDR400 memory, an Nvidia GeForce2 video card, and otherwise runs > Win2000 and > WinXP Pro flawlessly. > > I've read all sorts of help files, but am still pretty lost. Can you > advise > me as to how to proceed from here? Is there a forum I can post this > to? > > Thank you very much! > > Claude > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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