On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, David Walker davidianwal...@gmail.com wrote:
A colleague and I were talking about operating systems and I said, hey
[...]
If I reboot I get a message to the console that gdm is starting but it
goes to a console login.
Sounds like a video problem. It usually
On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:17 AM, David Walker wrote:
A colleague and I were talking about operating systems and I said, hey
lets install FreeBSD and see what Gnome looks like.
I did an install at work but ran out of time so I brought another
machine home but I'm having trouble.
I burnt an
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, David Walker wrote:
I did a pkg_add ...
# pkg_add -r gnome2
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1
I tried to enable Gnome by editing /etc/rc.conf ...
gdm_enable=YES
gnome_enable=YES
If you're doing a new install and you're primarily after a desktop
experience, go with PC-BSD 9.0 (http://www.pcbsd.org). All the basics are
looked after for you, including graphics config, auto-mounting USB drives,
wireless ... It has a graphical package installer for PC-BSD PBI packages,
but
Thanks to all the quick and helpful replies.
Getting the low hanging fruit out of the way first ...
On 18/01/2012, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
At least some of the desktop environments don't actually depend on X, so
it may not have even been installed. 'pkg_info -Ix xorg-server'
