Using Gnome ...

OutbackDingo outbackdingo at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 16:01:22 UTC 2012


On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:17 AM, David Walker wrote:

> A colleague and I were talking about operating systems and I said, hey
> lets install FreeBSD and see what Gnome looks like.
> I did an install at work but ran out of time so I brought another
> machine home but I'm having trouble.
> 
> I burnt an ISO of 9.0 and installed it.
> 
> I did a pkg_add ...
> # pkg_add -r gnome2
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1
> 
> I tried to enable Gnome by editing /etc/rc.conf ...
> gdm_enable="YES"
> gnome_enable="YES"
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome
> Note the difference there.
> 
> If I reboot I get a message to the console that gdm is starting but it
> goes to a console login.
> 
> Is there anything else I need to do?
> 

Your x configuration probably isn't right, make sure you have the x video drivers installed and configure X manually if possible, auto detection might have failed.

> Best wishes.
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