On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:21:13 +0000 "Claude Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, my name is Claude, and I'm new to FreeBSD. I've installed it on a hard > drive by itself, and I get it to boot. The install seemed to have completed > without a glitch. :) > My problem is that I expected the booting process to finish in the graphical > user interface. Instead, it stops at a CLI prompt. Yup, that's the way it work around here ;) do as user: $ echo 'exec startkde' > ~/.xinirc $ startx > Maybe I did something wrong. > I tried re-configuring by booting off the CD, and I selected KDE as > my user interface. But something in the configuration goes wrong, and it > tells me to select a simpler interface. I've tried a couple of the others, > with the same result. What failed, X configuration or adding KDE ? Give us the errors, we cannot guess them. > I did not modify anything in the kernel. Is that the problem? My computer > has a Soho P4X400 Dragon Lite MB, an Intel Celeron 2.2 GHz processor, 256 MB > of DDR400 memory, an Nvidia GeForce2 video card, and otherwise runs Win2000 > and WinXP Pro flawlessly. It should work. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"