From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 28 23:27:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B40816A412 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rythms1@bigpond.com) Received: from qsrv02ps.mx.bigpond.com (qsrv02ps.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA0113C47C for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rythms1@bigpond.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (really [124.184.27.10]) by omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20061228220604.TQWZ19269.omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com@[192.168.1.2]> for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:06:04 +0000 Message-ID: <45944118.1000207@bigpond.com> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:11:36 +1100 From: rythms1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20061113 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge8 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com from [124.184.27.10] using ID rythms1 at Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:06:04 +0000 Cc: Subject: Help 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: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:27:23 -0000 I have try to make a desktop computer just to use BSD as a stand alone desktop ...........I had a friend to help and even with his help we haven't manage to load up KDE or Gnome.................it was partly load up at the begining but it was very slow even with GNome and could not find the host .................like I call the computer OGUN , it had trouble finding the host,................so I load hte system again it is in a old AMD 700 with over 600 SDRAM memory and a old 16 megs NVIDIA video card.............but it should work .......................My friend Colin went into TTY to get X11 to work but no luck it work but it took to long to load up as well as getting anything to run.................at the end manage to get KDE to run but again to slow and many of the programs didn't work at all still would not see the name of the computer OGUN ......................so I went to FREE BSD page had a look and saw what to do after I load the system again ..............load everything I could, all the X11 just to make sure...............but since I only know very little comand line not like Colin knows lots and works with Debian Linux and makes its own OS out of Debian.....he was a bit confuse.....so how can I use the keyboard to turn on ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure........... everytime I try to type it in the keyboard it does something else so is any way one has to work with the keyboard to type on for the X11R6 to work. I just wanna use BSD so I can get use to it, and then use it on my other boxes ,I got with Debian linux Colin say that BSD is more secure than Debian linux so I like to try it . Can you please give some hints in how to make it work as a desktop at home and surf the net and burn cd's that all I want to do and word as well but for now I only want the desktop running. Julio :-(