From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 2:23:18 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 1818F37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 02:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4351543E6A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 02:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 8319 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2002 09:23:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 23 Sep 2002 09:23:07 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 63CDC2FDAB2; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:23:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:23:03 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: taproot420 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions before installing 4.6.2 Message-ID: <20020923092303.GV30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: taproot420 , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1512145715.20020922162517@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1512145715.20020922162517@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # taproot420@myrealbox.com / 2002-09-22 16:25:17 -0500: > 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. windows first is the safe way, but xp should preserve freebsd(?) i've only used booteasy, which is the freebsd boot manager. nothing fancy, but works. > 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? i don't use gforce cards, but you should be able to tell on the xfree86 site. > 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. i use openbox, a blackbox fork. it's a window manager (i don't use kde or gnome), but the 2.x branch has full netwm support, so you can use it in kde/gnome just fine if you need an "integrated desktop environment". -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 11:17AM up 5 days, 18:32, 22 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.08, 0.05 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message