From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 22:40:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20493 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:40:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from neon.lvdi.net (neon.lvdi.net [208.129.21.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA20474 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shanmin@lvdi.net) Received: from dell (usr4-ppp20.lvdi.net [208.136.160.20]) by neon.lvdi.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA15998 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:31:16 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: "Shan-Min Chao" From: "Shan-Min Chao" To: Subject: TCP/IP, XWindows - About, XWindows Config Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:38:45 -0800 Message-ID: <01bceffe$ca7c32c0$0281c86c@dell> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello everybody! Thank you for your prompt responses last time. Unfortunately, I have come up with another set of questions. Please bear with me, as I am trying my best to learn this powerful new operating system. The following are my questions: 1) I would like to setup my computer so that it support TCP/IP (so that I can ping other computers on the web). Right now, the ping command doesn't seem to work, so I am assuming I did not set the TCP/IP right. Where would I go to mess around with the settings and how would I go about it? I am using FreeBSD 2.2.2, if it helps. 2) I just finished installing XWindows, and I have a very important question - what the heck is it for? Can somebody tell me info about its advantages, its disadvantages, its uses, etc? I open it up, and the windows "login", "x-term", and "clock" show up. What is the difference and what are they? 3) I still have some problems configuring XWindows. I have a S3 Virge3d card with 2 megs of VRam, and a Dell Trinitron 17 inch monitor. When I load up XWindows, it is only displayed with the colors pink, white, and gray. Is there some way to make it "prettier", or did I just configure it improperly? Thank you very much for volunteering your time to helping out beginner's like me. I really appreciate all the help.