Two unrelated questions
Kliment Andreev
klimenta at futurebit.com
Tue Jan 6 06:27:59 PST 2004
> 2) I have installed freebsd 4.9 on my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, when I
> try to configure XFree86 I have to use the text based tool. After doing
> that, when I run startx I get a grainy desktop that almost covers my
screen,
> but not quite, and has only a clock window, a login window, and an xterm
> window, and nothing else. Where am I going wrong?
You didn't install some of the window managers. Log as root and
# cd /stand
# ./sysinstall
Choose Post-Configure XFree86 or something and install KDE, Gnome or
something similar.
# rehash
# startx
It should work...
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