From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 2: 8:25 2002 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 A13AF37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 02:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whocares.org (12-239-9-75.client.attbi.com [12.239.9.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB4C43E6A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 02:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taproot420@myrealbox.com) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=canaboid) by nospam.domain.com with esmtp (Exim 6.66 #1) id 17tEBy-0007YT-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:23:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:25:17 -0500 From: taproot420 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: taproot420 Organization: sweet dreams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1512145715.20020922162517@myrealbox.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Questions before installing 4.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello freebsd-questions, I am getting ready to try freebsd and have some general questions before i start. 1. I, have used linux and openbsd for awile but i am sure there are some differences so the first one is about dual boot. The machine i am setting up will have 1/2 the drive for XP and 1/2 for freebsd and i am wondering which OS i should load first and then which boot manager to use and how to accomplish this. 2. My machine (amd athlon 1800+ ,256 ddr ram) also has the Geforce 4 video card with dvi output as i use a lcd monior. Is this card supported by the XFree86 sever present in the current release, is it possible to use it at all in case the latter answer is no...and if somehow i can get this card working can i use the DVI output for my lcd and if so what config do i need to add to the xfree86.config to use this DVI port? 3. What is a good, clean, stable and attractive such as themable etc... desktop and window manager combo. I was thinking gnome but wanted some opinions on this. Thanks for all input. -- Best regards, taproot420 mailto:taproot420@myrealbox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message