From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 05:00:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0288816A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93AC243D2F for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:00:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from prashanth.chandra@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so479687wra for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:00:46 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=k7ZDtJEcFSog5fPM7Tl7YS4iJGo3Zbwl7+NsaNgJEKorAfwlRQJmsSgm0pEeAB7auF0IVUTpEtE1rflzpm3+pvBhL8nNuxnPZAp1JKDl4SQKy9YqkS3xKtgnmzXgc8ZqhZQ7mrbu+UG0mxqQzQnyqmOKZ5Q8Zpm4h934pip0N/E= Received: by 10.54.7.10 with SMTP id 10mr359020wrg; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:00:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.22.72 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:00:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <37191e99050212210025fea545@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:30:45 +0530 From: Prashanth Chandra To: Gnanaskandan Rajagopalan In-Reply-To: <8f0687f00502122029478c455a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8f0687f00502122029478c455a@mail.gmail.com> cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel i810 sound card & motorola sm56 int. modem config X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Prashanth Chandra List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:00:47 -0000 Hi, On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:59:55 +0530, Gnanaskandan Rajagopalan wrote: > Hello, > i am new to freebsd and i installed freebsd4.10 on my system with > great difficulty. it wudnt display GUI properly. i had to do xconfig a > lot of times but still it failed. Frustrated, i switched off the comp > and when i switched it back on, it was working. KDE is running by > default. i installed most of the packages during the install. > 1. Is there any list like windows add/remove programs list where i can > see what programs i have installed? How do i change the default GUI or > such applications? Guess that shouldn't be difficult and if i look > around properly, i should find it. Try: $ man pkg_info For changing window manager refer to Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html > 2. How do i configure the sound card? i have intel 810 chipset. and > AC97 on-board audio controller. # cd /boot/kernel # kldload sound.ko # kldload snd_ich.ko See man pages of kldload and kldstat. Also, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: snd_ich_load="YES" to load the sound modules by default at boot time (no need to do kldload explicitly). > 3. I have an internal modem which didn't get installed. And i cant > kppp dialer because of that. It is a winmodem. The model is sm56 by > motorola. I had lots of probs installing this modem in RedHat9 long > back. No idea about this. - Prashanth