Date: 22 Apr 2003 08:54:36 -0400 From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org> To: Bob Schmidt <pastorbob@centurytel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <1051016076.999.19.camel@mis3> In-Reply-To: <003401c30848$9c138ba0$0200a8c0@schmidts> References: <003401c30848$9c138ba0$0200a8c0@schmidts>
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Hi Bob, The FreeBSD handbook is your friend. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html There is a section about window managers that describes how to run Gnome and KDE without x/gdm. I assume that you have already configured X, but if you didn't the handbook also goes into detail about that. To configure your mouse, you can run the sysinstall program (/stand/sysinstall) and run the configuration for your mouse. As far as the modem, FreeBSD does use COM ports to identify the modem devices, but rather /dev/cuaa?. If your modem is on COM2, then your device name would be /dev/cuaa1. One of the first things that I do is to create a symbolic link /dev/modem to /dev/cuaa so I don't have to remember what port my modem is on. I see that you are using kppp, but you might want to try FreeBSD's built in user ppp. It's fairly easy to configure, and again, the handbook goes into great detail on how to set things up. Good Luck, Jason Stewart Systems Administrator/Programmer Right to Life of Michigan > I am trying to install freebsd ver. 5 on a digital 433au (alpha system). Here are the problems I am facing. > > 1. If I use a ps/2 mouse I can't get it to work, but if I use a serial mouse it works. Any ideas. > > 2. How can I get a modem to work in kde? During intial install I setup a modem on com2. But when using kppp it says that it cannot find a resolv.config file, what is that. > > 3. I installed gnome as well, hwo can I get into it? If I type in gdm it errors out. > > 4. There is no sound. I get an error message about the sound server. > > Thanks, > Bob > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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