From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 03:36:35 2004 Return-Path: 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 98F9816A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:36:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FA243D58 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:36:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfindlay@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id q44so55052cwc for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:36:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E8LBD6UV/nJ6r329OgT1nFThIAwJMxzu4PgIoIPsXPje+DSp1lfwHD9+6A/qZNFYRcFTYp/xls7iKKuC+cIzplK3MAFm+xYdVYYdvb3DDDC3KQjYkLgovrZVfNt//g/BRUibpoFbJtQ1/U4tI7CH3Pcn0WLhFlkOPI42m7EI7nA= Received: by 10.11.116.63 with SMTP id o63mr109255cwc; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.118.10 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:36:34 -0400 From: David Findlay To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 RC1 X Config X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Findlay List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:36:35 -0000 I am a first time user of FreeBSD. I burned copies of the 5.3 RC1 install disks 1 and 2. I booted from the 1st disk and went through the standard install, selecting All packages. The handbook says there is a configuration option for the X server but it never gets to this for me, nor can I find it from the sysinstall menu anywhere. Thinking I'd done something wrong I ran the install again and the same thing happened. In each case the standard install does be base copies then lets you pick yuor distribution, and I pick all,then it ask for some config like the mouse, ttys, timezone, users, root password. Finally it asks if I'd like to go back the config menu to make some final changes. Once I say yes I am back in the configuration menu and there's no way out that doesn't just exit sysinstall, which may be where it would go if I'd said no. So I have a bootable FreeBSD system with X and KDE packages installed but not configured. Am I supposed to go run xorgconfig by hand from a regular shell afterwards? This asks for monitor vsync etc like the old linux ones did; the newer ones let you pick your monitor by name - I was hoping the X configuration I can't find in sysinstall would do this too. Also, if I do the xorgconfig, how do I configure it to run KDE on top of X? Any tips greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave