Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:12:59 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2 Message-ID: <4EFEB5FB.4070909@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20111230204537.BXW09315@ms5.mc.surewest.net> References: <20111230204537.BXW09315@ms5.mc.surewest.net>
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On 12/31/11 14:45, leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net wrote: > Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have insta= lled FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. After many hours of frustr= ation, 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 thi= s version of FreeBSD, or at least I do not seem to know how to apply them= =2E I type "find sound," or "find pcm," or find snd_envy24," or "find x1= 1," 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 s= upposedly installed at the time of system configuration, but as to where,= I cannot seem to determine. The gnome installation took twice as long a= s 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 Lee, your provided info so far is great. But what happened when you=20 first installed the system? Step by step through the install process. 1. Disk in, boot up. 2. Wait for beastie menu or hit enter to run. 3. Keyboard selected. 4. Standard install started. 5. Drive formatted. 6. Base packages selected - which ones? 7. Users, Root, mouse and time setup. 8. Network services (NFS client or server, gateway, etc). 9. Package install- any packages selected? (Is this where you installed=20 gnome and X) 10. Anything else configured? 11. Reboot. What showed up on the reboot? Run dmesg and post the output. Also, which part of the handbook are you reading? The teletyped lines=20 are commands to be run, and I'm not sure where your commands are coming=20 from. Find is a directory tree parser, and can be used to find things. So you=20 run "find / -name foo" to find "foo" in the filesystem. "find /" will=20 list the whole filesystem. What attempting I believe would be "whereis", = as in "whereis sound". Run "man find" or "man whereis" to discover more, = or google those commands if you have trouble reading that on the console.= Running startx won't get you far if you're looking for a Desktop=20 Environment like Gnome, so lets hold on that. But lets see if you can=20 get the sound first- login as root or "su -" at the prompt (password=20 will be root's password) and try "kldload snd_driver" and "cat=20 /dev/sndstat" and post the output. That will load sound and try to find=20 the right driver for you as a kernel module. Note that and run "ee=20 /boot/loader.conf" and add the driver there (as in snd_hda or=20 snd_envy24) directly followed by _load=3DYES: eg, snd_hda_load=3DYES. Hit= =20 the escape key to save and exit. The driver will load every time you=20 boot now. More next episode. Good luck :)
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