From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 01:33:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC0A16A407 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuleopen@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684DC43D46 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:33:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuleopen@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id o37so1882619nzf for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:33:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=JEdxV8rl1BsC8+f2B8nzODFOTwIq+UQNdyn+QRCE7NbGmG6mJOmemnfCf2691DhSV6rIEHusO3Jff/+6SoBE23ZRqwN9BWSkcrmbx1DsGUiPIzrPJY6NvdYcmtlmfFcg+NbfSURHzmDzdwcJW2sISLnMAgrnRHNM4iqG2znZR3I= Received: by 10.65.219.13 with SMTP id w13mr10117306qbq; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:33:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.251.9 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:33:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <68bfdc900611011733gd39d2c4h503602b4a047dbac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:33:35 +0800 From: "Sherry Zhang" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: About "how the GUI should look like after installation!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:33:37 -0000 On 11/2/06, Evans Durandisse wrote: > > I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I > wanted to install > freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and > mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed freebsd without much > configuration. I answered 'no' when asked to configure things what could be > configured later. But I do not know if I installed it right, eventhough I > tried to follow the instructions from the handbook. When I open my computer, > after installation, there's the screen that asked if I want to start freebsd > or dos. So I choose freebsd. Then, I logged in and typed 'startx' to start > the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I > am just seeing four comand shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No > background picture (greying grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition > image). There're just four squared box (shell). My mouse worked! But there's > nothing it can be used for. I tried to work myself over that by typing some > commands. But I don't know that much of the Unix language; so it's been to > no avail! So my question is should I get this kind of graphic environment? > or something missing in the installation. > > I have an intel D845GLVA motherboard with a Pent IV, integrated video > card, Samsung SyncMaster 753DF (maybe it's the hardware). But I didn't get > any error message for that. > Thank you for considering helping! Have a good day! > Evans > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > Evans it seems that every thing works fine! if you want a desktop enviroment, simply link to the internet, and type pkg_add -r gnome2 or something else. then without much configuration, you can use the gnome desktop environment. please follow the handbook (see /usr/share/doc) and you will be able to explore more. Sherry Zhang