How do I get into GUI?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:21:13 +0000
"Claude Martin" <claude_martin_41 at hotmail.com> 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.
 

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IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user