From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 22 10:31:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsite.vtc.net (mailsite.vtc.net [208.138.148.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8284137B42F for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sidney-bmqxoo67 (unverified [208.164.126.108]) by mailsite.vtc.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.6) with SMTP id for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:31:35 -0700 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:29:34 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org From: Sidney Brooks Subject: Several questions Reply-To: Sidney@FreeBSD.ORG, Brooks@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Sidney Brooks X-Mailer: Opera 5.12 build 932 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have played with linux fo several years, but just tried Free BSD. 1.When I installed BSD, I selected KDE, Gnome, and Enlightenment with KDE as my default. It worked well until as root, I tried "startx enlightenment", which got me into enlightenment. Now whenever, I type startx as root, I get enlightenment instead of kde. As a user, I still get KDE. Is there any way to reverse what I have done? 2. I have a new computer with an S3G Graphics Inc, Pro Savage video card. When I do XF86Setup, any S3 driver gives me a sceen with elements so big that I can't even accept the result. This leaves me with Generic VGA, which works but does not fit the window on my computer screen very well. I have used xvidtune, but cannot get a combination that really fits. Any suggestions. 3. In my first attempt to install BSD, I tried to use the BSD boot loader. It recognized my BSD and Windows partitions, but not my linux partition. I am now using lilo for all three. I assume that what happened is because my hard disk is too big. Am I right? 4. Since I have a big disk, I tried to load everything, but eventually the installation process froze. I then installed average user with X. Have others had this problem? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message