Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

[KAYVEN RIESE]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
> On 30/01/2008, doug at safeport.com <doug at safeport.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
>>> On 29/01/2008, doug <doug at fledge.watson.org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
>>>>> On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <siraj.shaikh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 29/01/2008, doug <doug at fledge.watson.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
>>>>>>>
>
> Just to repeat. I installed FreeBSD 6.3, its a new Toshiba notebook. I
> chose to install X Windows during sysinstall. The very first time I
> ran startx it didnt work. Then I did the "Xorg -configure" and tried
> again, and still doesnt work. Please help !!!!

startx is lame.  most ppl apparently use either KDE or gnome. i used
to use xfce4 that was started with the command "starxfce4" but i ended
up being pursuaded out of it because i couldn't do flash and multimedia
plugins.  have you tried running the following command at the
root prompt:

#pkg_add -r gnome2

i think that is what i used.

here is a webpage for gnome:

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/

have you familiarized yourself with the freeBSD pkg_add pkg_delete
and ports systems /usr/ports ?  the -r directive means that it goes
out to the web to find things to install and at the same time installs
it.  really easy.  for the ports system

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html

you merely figure out what port you want.. do a command something
like (as root)

#cd /usr/ports/path/to/a/kewl/app

and then

#make install clean

the ports system figures out all the dependencies.. also there is a
kewl thing called "portsnap" that updates the ports directories

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsnap&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html


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