How do I get into GUI?
Robert Warning
cleeker at gmx.net
Fri Jan 23 13:15:27 PST 2004
Check out the following link
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html
You may want the nvidia drivers.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html
Check back if your still stumped.
RW
On 2004-01-23 10:21:13 -0500 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. 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I've read all sorts of help files, but am still pretty lost. Can you
> advise
> me as to how to proceed from here? Is there a forum I can post this
> to?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Claude
>
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