Abbaasi Hasan wrote: > > Hi, > i am using FreeBSD 4.4. > i have trouble running X.
Did you install XFree86 3.3.6 from the base installation, or 4.1.0 from the packages? > when i run it, a hashed black and white screen appears and a mouse > cursor. no HDD work. Did you do the X configuration at the end of the installation process? I don't understand what you mean by HDD here. > i am as root. i havent installed KDE, GNOME,.... The default Window > manager is installed. > i can run xinnit. You don't normally run xinit directly, but rather you run startx, a shell script which runs xinit. > i dont know what is it, but i can run it and it gives me a console > and i can also run some X utilities like calculator. The standard window manager is twm. The standard xinitrc will start it with three xterms. I believe clicking on the root window puts up a menu which allows you to start a few standard X utilities. > My graphic card : > ATI 264GT3(3D RAGE PRO) > i have installed Mach64 Server. I'm not familiar with this. It may be better supported by 4.1.0 than by 3.3.6. > 1 - Where is the problem? It looks to me like you didn't configure your Xserver at all, but that's just a guess. > 2 - How should i do to get KDE and install it? >From the packages. It really sounds like you didn't complete the installation. After the base tar files are unpacked, the installer directs you to configuring your system and installing packages. It sounds like you got impatient and skipped that step. Run /stand/sysinstall (as root) and pick "Configure" (5th item) from the main menu. Try "XFree86" near the bottom of the Configure menu. While you're at it, you'll probably want to take care of some other system administration duties, like "TimeZone", "Mouse", "Networking", "User Management". Look around at what the menu offers. You probably do NOT want "Fdisk" or "Label". "Desktop" is for configuring (and I think installing) KDE and Gnome. "Packages" is for installing any of ~6000 other programs. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
