From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 05:03:14 2011 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 18C8C1065672 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:03:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net) Received: from rc1.surewest.net (rc1.surewest.net [66.60.130.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24488FC0A for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1.surewest.net ([66.60.130.145]) by rc1.surewest.net ({dfaaa318-551d-4a0a-8038-7c31cf31c4f6}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20111231044538215 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:45:38 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from ms5.mc.surewest.net (hansolo.surewest.net [64.30.98.104]) by smtp1.surewest.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9A9895C7 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ms5.mc.surewest.net [192.168.60.104]) by ms5.mc.surewest.net (MOS 4.1.8-GA) with HTTP/1.1 id BXW09315 (AUTH leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net); Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:37 -0800 (PST) From: To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Mirapoint Webmail Direct 4.1.8-GA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20111230204537.BXW09315@ms5.mc.surewest.net> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:37 -0800 (PST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:13:47 +0000 Cc: Subject: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2 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: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:03:14 -0000 Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I want my system to include an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card, MIDI over USB driver, X-windows, and Gnome. The instructions in the handbook and on-disk man do not seem to apply to this version of FreeBSD, or at least I do not seem to know how to apply them. I type "find sound," or "find pcm," or find snd_envy24," or "find x11," or "find gnome," and receive either a blank response, or response of "file does not exist" to all of these queries. All of these items were supposedly installed at the time of system configuration, but as to where, I cannot seem to determine. The gnome installation took twice as long as installation of everything else. Where did sysinstall install it? How do I get it to start? The response to "startx" is "file does not exit." I realize that I may be missing something o b! vious. Any guidance is appreciated. -- Lee