From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 13:01:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA20497 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA20482 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:01:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA02560; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:01:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Shan-Min Chao cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP, XWindows - About, XWindows Config In-Reply-To: <01bceffe$ca7c32c0$0281c86c@dell> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Shan-Min Chao wrote: > Hello everybody! > Thank you for your prompt responses last time. Unfortunately, I have > come up with another set of questions. Please bear with me, as I am trying > my best to learn this powerful new operating system. The following are my > questions: > > 1) I would like to setup my computer so that it support TCP/IP (so that I > can ping other computers on the web). Right now, the ping command doesn't > seem to work, so I am assuming I did not set the TCP/IP right. Where would > I go to mess around with the settings and how would I go about it? I am > using FreeBSD 2.2.2, if it helps. Check the ifconfig and netstat commands. > 2) I just finished installing XWindows, and I have a very important > question - what the heck is it for? Can somebody tell me info about its > advantages, its disadvantages, its uses, etc? I open it up, and the windows > "login", "x-term", and "clock" show up. What is the difference and what are > they? XWindows is a graphical user environment, much like M$ Windows. It's pretty big, but it's a nice interface. I have three windows on my box right now, two normal-sized terminals and one screen-tall terminal I'm typing into at the moment. Aroudn the rest of the screen is a button bar with a clock and a minimized console display. If you want to run Netscape, view pictures, and other graphical apps, you have to run X. By default, `xterm' is just a regular login session. The one marked `login' controls the whole thing; if it exits the session ends. `clock' is, well a clock. :) > 3) I still have some problems configuring XWindows. I have a S3 Virge3d > card with 2 megs of VRam, and a Dell Trinitron 17 inch monitor. When I load > up XWindows, it is only displayed with the colors pink, white, and gray. Is > there some way to make it "prettier", or did I just configure it improperly? It depends on the program in question. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major