Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:12:36 +0200 From: Nick@Pettefar.com To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual Message-ID: <EC931B4A-5302-4A59-8447-EA550197DB51@pettefar.com> In-Reply-To: <20090612093514.663e8e09.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <BABCD0FF-0451-4892-9729-5FB7742A7E57@Pettefar.com> <20090612093514.663e8e09.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Nowhere up to that point in the Installation chapter and process (I didn't need to have said) did it mention X. What is the point of having a step-by-step installation manual which then concludes with "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." when up to that point it hasn't mentioned X!? Mentioning it three chapters later is not really very helpful to people struggling to get the thing installed step-by-step! Step-by-step guides are difficult to write, especially be people that know a lot about the subject beforehand as details tend to get glossed over. When it doesn't work (as has happened to me) and you have to Ctrl-Alt- Del then you are left feeling lost and confused - a bit like Linux ten years ago. (OpenSuse installed and worked graphically perfect). Shouldn't there be an X configuration stage in the installation process? Nick On 12 Jun 2009, at 15:35, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Nick@Pettefar.com: > >> In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html >> It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop >> chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but >> nowhere in the manual or the installation program is there any >> information or options on X server configuration or choosing a >> Default >> Desktop! Help! > > You weren't able to find this page?: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html > Or this one?: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x- > config.html > > Nowhere, indeed. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ bustard# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.968 X.Org X Server 1.6.0 Release Date: 2009-2-25 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD bustard.pettefar.com 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 root@walker.cse.buffalo.edu :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Build Date: 22 April 2009 02:40:51PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jun 12 17:45:02 2009 (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines) (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) xclock: not found
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