Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:25:08 +0200 From: Riaan Annandale <riaana@mundane.co.za> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Hi All + Technical question Message-ID: <20050309062507.GB33484@za.tiscali.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi Everyone, I literraly juts signed on tho the list, and now it's time for some n00b questions. I didn't know if I whould ask on the technical list seeing as IMHO this is a pretty n00b question. See I've got quite an extensive linux background so I figured it can't be that difficult on freeBSD. I've played around with BSD once or twice (back in version 3 and 4) but never for very long before giving up and moving back to SuSE. However, this time I think i got the bull by the horns! I've migrated all my stuff from linux to BSD (workstation wise) there's just a couple of outstanding issues. Ie. KDM/GDM needs to work properly, as other people use my machine for an X server. And i am currently still sorting out mailman with postfix. Which was my own fault as to why it's not working. However, there are two things that are bugging me. Whenever I leave X, the console seems to get darker, eventually I can't see it anymore, and have to reboot to sort the problem out. I feel this could be video card related - I have a GeForce 4 MX 420 with the latest NVidia drive. And I have disabled the AGP, ACPI is also disabled otherwise X just hangs. So I was wondering if anyone has any clue as to what this might be? And second I dunno how many of you use gkrellm in windowmaker but, i can't get it to appear on every work space. This I am sure, is a real dumb thing on my part because i feel it must be something really simple. Other than that however, everything is going great! Let me know if this is too technical for a newbie list so that I can put it on the tech list too if need be. Thanks in advance! -- Riaan Annandale Engineering: Senior Systems Administrator Tiscali (PTY) LTD. INTERNET WITH A PASSION 42 Wierda Road West, Wierda Valley, Sandton Office : 0861 22 55 86 E-Mail : Riaan.Annandale@za.tiscali.com http://www.tiscali.co.za/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCLpbDJRggvz18KpsRAsZUAJ9rfWNas+wBEZwrZb1EHlPHxYohtACgiHXk 6gNBRni2KBhG46lVHYwCiog= =YZLN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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