From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 9 08:53:47 2005 Return-Path: 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 70F2316A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:53:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417DA43D39 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:53:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willietheturtle@linuxmail.org) Received: from wfilter.us4.outblaze.com (wfilter.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.180])E0EF118001C8 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:53:46 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.86) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 9 Jan 2005 08:53:46 -0000 Received: by ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D88A823EE65; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [65.29.22.32] by ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com with http for willietheturtle@linuxmail.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:53:46 +0800 From: "william gatlin" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:53:46 +0800 X-Originating-Ip: 65.29.22.32 X-Originating-Server: ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20050109085346.D88A823EE65@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> Subject: I quit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:53:47 -0000 Hello,=20 =20 I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and trying = to get it to work. After figuring out=20 how to get an ISO image, windows couldn't do it because netscape insisted o= n modifying the file, I loaded it and=20 got a lot of error code 1 messages that I never did figure out. I changed = the partitioning and allowed 1/2 a gig=20 for the root directory and loaded it again.=20 =20 All seemed to go well untill I tryed to configure the X.org windowing syste= m. Nothing in /stand/sysinstall would=20 do any configuration of X. Went to the net and got instructions. Finally = got X to work and found vidtune.=20 =20 Kdm comes up with a log in screen which just leads to another log in screen= . ctrl-alt-backspace won't turn x off=20 as it keeps comming back on it's own. Nothing leads to a window manager ot= her than the little one that comes with=20 X.=20 =20 I re-downloaded the window managers from the net and hoped that would fix i= t. It didn't. I'm sure that the trouble=20 is in some little config file somewhere or another but I just don't have t= he time as I need a running system=20 going.=20 =20 My opinion is that x.org isn't integrated quite well enough yet for prime t= ime. My BSD books don't have the new=20 commands and other information to be of any use and the Man pages that down= loaded were of no help either.=20 =20 So for now I'm going to try to load Slackware and hope that maybe in a year= BSD will be easier to wade through. I=20 have to admit a bit of sorrow in having to do this as I wanted them both on= the same machine.=20 =20 At the same time I wish to communicate my respect and admiration for the gr= eat job the BSD community is doing and=20 hope in no way to communicate any disregaurd for everyones efforts.=20 =20 Right now I have to have Windows up and running also and am watching it go = into a self destruct mode from somthing=20 that it downloaded from the net all by it's self with no human operator tou= ching it. There are so many Popups I=20 had to pull the net cable just to stop it. They don't get no respect.=20 =20 It is my hope that the various Windows emulators will/are working well enou= gh to run some of my mission critical=20 programs. Espesially 'Trade Station' . I can't imagine having thousands o= f dollars riding on Microsoft=20 reliability.=20 =20 Thank You--------Bill Gatlin=20=20=20 --=20 ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org=20 This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze