Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Polytropon skrev 2011-11-10 01:30: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:49:19 +0100, Samuel Magnusson wrote: And migrating from Windows and Mac might be discouraging if there isn't a working desktop with visible text at least within an hour or two after installation. :) No problem in that, see Fre

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Polytropon wrote 2011-11-09 19:19: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:19:44 +0100, Samuel Magnusson wrote: This works for me: X :0 -terminate Ctrl-Alt-F1 xterm -display :0 Ctrl-Alt-F9 exit xterm.. which brings me back to the first console. But this doesn't work: X :0 -terminate vt4 Ctrl-Alt-F1 (do

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote 2011-11-09 21:02: Samuel Magnusson, 2011-11-09 12:06 (+0100): Now I'm curious: Is it then so that in the "new style" Xorg the XML-method will override HAL, and this is the new default way of providing opitons that formerly were in the InputDev

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Polytropon wrote 2011-11-09 19:15: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:06:37 +0100, Samuel Magnusson wrote: Is it then so that in the "new style" Xorg the XML-method will override HAL, and this is the new default way of providing opitons that formerly were in the InputDevice sections in xorg.con

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Samuel Magnusson wrote 2011-11-09 12:06: Now I'm curious: Is it then so that in the "new style" Xorg the XML-method will override HAL, and this is the new default way of providing opitons that formerly were in the InputDevice sections in xorg.conf? And should HAL have discov

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Thanks guys, that was really helpful! I now also installed the nVidia driver and it works well. The reason I didn't use it in the first place was that I had read that the old Geforce 2-card wasn't supported by the nVidia rivers anymore. And that nouveau (as replacement for nv) should be used i

X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Hi everyone! I'm quite new to BSD and installed it on my old Pentium to try to learn the unixverse from bottom up. My first aim is not just getting the system running for surfing the web or something, not even to be productive, but to understand why and how it runs.(Or else, why it runs n