Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:26:41 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2 Message-ID: <20111231092641.c0dd4175.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20111230204537.BXW09315@ms5.mc.surewest.net> References: <20111230204537.BXW09315@ms5.mc.surewest.net>
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:37 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net wrote: > Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, > and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. Excellent choice of OS. > 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 M-Audio Delta sound hardware is listed in the snd_envy24 sound driver. MIDI over USB... sorry, no experience with that (only "real" MIDI in ye olden times). X-Window (X11) and Gnome need to be installed, they are not part of the operating system. > 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. The basic steps should be the same. They have been nearly the same since 4.0. :-) > 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. That's correct. See "man find" for how to properly invoke that program. Basically, you use # find <start-dir> -name <what> to find some specific files, e. g. # find /usr/ports -name gnome # find /boot -name snd_envy24\* You can add the \* wildcard (* needs to be escaped for the shell to _not_ expand it!) if you're not searching for one specific file name. > All of these items were supposedly installed at the time > of system configuration, but as to where, I cannot seem > to determine. Installed software will be in /usr/local. You can for example use the command # find /usr/local -name gnome-session\* to see if the gnome session manager has been installed. An easier approach is to make yourself familiar with ports and packages, and how to use the pkg_* family of tools, as well as how to read the content of /var/db/pkg; for example, all installed software will cause a directory to be created in that path, so you can see if it's there: # ls /var/db/pkg/gnome* will list all gnome stuff that is installed. This subtree is your "catalog of installed things". But it's _much_ easier to read "man pkg_info" and use that. It's not the time for a lecture about shell scripting right now. :-) Just in case you don't know the correct syntax for any command, or the purpose or layout of a file, use its man page. FreeBSD is known for covering all the parts of the OS with a proper manual page (system binaries and scripts, configuration files, device drivers, kernel interfaces, library functions, system operation and maintenance procedures, and introductions). > The gnome installation took twice as long as installation > of everything else. Where did sysinstall install it? Into /usr/local. Gnome is a "heavy beast" with lots of dependencies. > How do I get it to start? This is covered in the Handbook in section 6.7: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html make sure you're running the depending services related to making Gnome functional. Additionally, in most cases you'll want to have hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, the system's configuration file. Also see http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ > The response to "startx" is "file does not exit." I realize > that I may be missing something o > b! > vious. It seems that you're missing X. :-) You need to install the xorg port (or package via pkg_add -r) along with the driver for your graphics card. If you have successfully accomplished that, Gnome should be up and running. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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