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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:14:54 -0500
Curtis Almond <cjalmond@gmail.com> wrote:

> Lloyd,
> 
> When I was learning to install and configure FreeBSD for the first
> year or so I always defaulted to using /stand/sysinstall.  This
> allows you to configure your input devices (mouse and keyboard),
> video card, and choose the desktop you would like to use
> (Gnome/KDE).
> 
> If you are using a system in which you installed from CD and have
> not done any port upgrade magic I would recommend that method to
> getting started.

Or you could do it using xf86cfg -textmode