Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:04:42 -0700 From: Laurent de Segur <lds@apple.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Newbie question. Message-ID: <200005021904.MAA13292@scv2.apple.com>
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Hi everyone, First of all, thanks for the answers I received from people on this list. The BSD community rocks, let me tell you! I believe that my main difficulty (beside the fact that I am new on FreeBSD ;-) come from the fact that I tried to install the hard way on a laptop: I took the base files from 4.0 cd (without XF86) and then installed manually XF86 4.0 from a ms_dos partition. I am missing a lot of files (all the things that get installed behind your back when you run a nifty installer.) I still don't want to give up, but it's just really hard that way. I just hope that an upcoming update would offer to install XF86 4.0 with FreeBSD and that a kernel would be build for the most popular laptops (mine is a Thinkpad ;-) This would make this OS even more popular. On the graphic side: I am at the point where I can start X by running startx, only when I log as root (or su). Then I get the desktop with a couple of term windows at 1024x768. That's good. But if I log as myself (non-wheel account), and startx, I get the message saying that I need to type XWrapper. I do just that and then xdm start with a huge login dialog (taking almost all the screen, it looks like I am in 640x480?) and a console in the bottom right of the screen. Of course I can login but then nothing else seems to be possible (I click everywhere but no menus appear) The only way to exit is to go back to text mode by using cmd-F1, F2 (my graphic display is on vt3) Should I reinstall with a standard XF3.x? On the network side: I get a message stating that edO is not installed. Gosh! I need to build a kernel already? I was hoping to skip the gory details, at least in the early phase. Maybe not... Thanks for any input you may think would be useful, Laurent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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