Hello, I have successfully installed FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 on my computer. Well, not quite, that's why I'm writing... The install went pretty smooth considering I am a total newbie to FreeBSD. I have also never used or even installed Linux. When I tried to configure XFree86 during the install, text mode was left and I entered a graphical configuration tool, that seemed display my current default configuration as a tree with symbolds for computer, graphics board, monitor and so on. I went into some configuration dialogs using the right click context menu, but when I was about to enter the keyboard config (or mouse?), I was brought back to the text mode installer with a message that said configuration of XFree86 seemed to have failed. Further atempts to enter the graphical configuration again failed. I finished the installation and booted the system from the harddrive. (I was very happy that the installation indeed left the MBR untouched and I could setup my existing bootmenu to include FreeBSD.) Some error messages scrolled by too fast for me to read, but they seemed like nothing serious, since the boot process continued and I got to the login prompt. The system seems fine, just that I cannot launch the X window system. When I type "startx", I get an error message about a missing configuration file, which makes sense to me considering configuration failed earlier. I have then read the FreeBSD 4.7 manual about configuring XFree86. It says to use "XFree86 -configure" to create an initial configuration file. However, this too gives me an error message saying that the following Fatal Error happened: "Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O". I also tried what the welcome message says and started "sysinstall". From there, I navigated to configuring XFree86, but again, the graphical configuration tool does not launch anymore.
So, I'm stuck. I actually installed FreeBSD to check out the Gnome and KDE desktop and use Gimp. I don't know in which direction to investigate further. Thanks for any and all help. Regards, Stephan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
