Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:00:43 +0530 From: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Configuration Woes Message-ID: <d85a51ff0609120030x89298ddgab65bdbbcb6e29b4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d85a51ff0609120028o10fa699awc05fd6532e2dd103@mail.gmail.com> References: <d85a51ff0609120028o10fa699awc05fd6532e2dd103@mail.gmail.com>
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> I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a > lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII > box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting > it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of > SDRAM@100MHz, and I installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my > Seagate harddrive ... connected to the Primary master IDE interface. > > .... > > If you can wade through this gibberish, please help. > > > Cheers, > Andy > Some updates: Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg installed is 6.9.0. I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf either. From the command-line I ran "xdm" and the GUI started ... I could login ... and then that's about it. 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can make do with a very minimal one. But I want a minimal one at least now, I just have to get this running or I can't sleep. Cheers, Andy
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