From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 8:48:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB7D37B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 08:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from birminghamweb@freeuk.com) Received: from [213.122.152.245] (helo=host213-122-152-245.btinternet.com) by tungsten.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #83) id 14wnFh-0007L2-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 May 2001 16:48:50 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 16:48:17 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay X-Sender: birminghamweb@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD working! .. Well, kinda... (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG WR> (except sound card - that's another issue). Yes. The issue is probably a simple matter of configuring your kernel. There are plenty of resources out there to tell you how to do that. But anyway... WR> 1) In KDE , my desktop seems to extend beyond the screen itself. There's an option with X to have a virtual screen which is bigger than the physical screen. I never have this set to yes because I find it irritating. If you check the Screen section (at the bottom) of /etc/XF86Config you will see references to 'Virtual 1024 768' or similar. That's what you need to be getting rid of. WR> (which shows me a "$", so I don't think I'm using bash and that's WR> what I WANT to use.) To use bash then install it from ports (if it isn't installed already - if it is then it will be /usr/local/bin/bash) and then run: chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash [username] WR> I try to go to root via "su" and it tells me that I cannot because WR> I'm not in the correct group?!?! To su to root you need to be in the 'wheel' group. You'll need to login as root and then edit /etc/group - the first line will start 'wheel' and at the end of the line, after the word root, add other usersthat you want to give root access to, separated by commas. *************************************** Andrew McKay Located near Birmingham, England Catalogue available on request *************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message