From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 16:20:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421791065674 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:20:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dalescott@shaw.ca) Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FE28FC19 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lb7f8hsrpno-svcs.dcs.int.inet (HELO pd7ml2no-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca) ([10.0.144.222]) by pd6mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 17 Jan 2012 09:20:43 -0700 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=GZn8e3lTBEeJrlGK3+GUWyR5aYe1SJcDn5uEERMe9yQ= c=1 sm=1 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=s1lrx0EV61IYYNPiyc1Uww==:17 a=x2m3GPe0AAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=01vqDjDZWU_RcvFnxYkA:9 a=hGKSZAXxuTclolAbkzYA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=AqrsU11dU8gA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Received: from unknown (HELO HPdv9000) ([70.73.37.138]) by pd7ml2no-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 17 Jan 2012 09:20:43 -0700 From: "Dale Scott" To: "'David Walker'" , References: In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:20:40 -0700 Message-ID: <007c01ccd533$f49a8f00$ddcfad00$@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Content-language: en-us Thread-Index: AQIMG7gIYw2ux5zG/1HKrTZ1sb6FNJWSLOUw Cc: Subject: RE: Using Gnome ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:20:44 -0000 If you're doing a new install and you're primarily after a desktop experience, go with PC-BSD 9.0 (http://www.pcbsd.org). All the basics are looked after for you, including graphics config, auto-mounting USB drives, wireless ... It has a graphical package installer for PC-BSD "PBI" packages, but it's standard FreeBSD-9.0 and ports under the hood. Perfect on a desktop (could still use some polish for laptop suspend/resume). Dale > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Walker > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:17 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Using Gnome ... > > A colleague and I were talking about operating systems and I said, hey lets > install FreeBSD and see what Gnome looks like. > I did an install at work but ran out of time so I brought another machine > home but I'm having trouble. > > I burnt an ISO of 9.0 and installed it. > > I did a pkg_add ... > # pkg_add -r gnome2 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11- > wm.html > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 > > I tried to enable Gnome by editing /etc/rc.conf ... > gdm_enable="YES" > gnome_enable="YES" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11- > wm.html > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome > Note the difference there. > > If I reboot I get a message to the console that gdm is starting but it goes to a > console login. > > Is there anything else I need to do? > > Best wishes. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"