It's very relevant replying me, please

[camuflag]

Dear Mr..

My name is Ziad Fazah. Indeed, after having installed Freebsd version
5.1 on my pc, I found out that its kernel had detected all my hardware
cards. Meanwhile, on having ended up the installation on my pc, I
noticed that by clicking on exit sysinstall and removing my CD in order
to reboot the system, the installation itself didn't led me into a
graphical environment. Unfortunately, it left me in a shell, wherein it
was written Grub. Thus, I do ask you urgently what to do, in the sense
of being led into a graphical environment. Moreover, only twice, I
managed to get at the login and the password successfully, but
afterwards, I couldn't go further. On the other hand, my attempts foiled
to get at the graphical environment. Don't you think that it might be a
certain mistake of this version? Please, help me.

Sincerely,
Ziad Fazah

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[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 07 December 2003 05:33 am, camuflag wrote:
> Dear Mr..
>
> My name is Ziad Fazah. Indeed, after having installed Freebsd version
> 5.1 on my pc, I found out that its kernel had detected all my hardware
> cards. Meanwhile, on having ended up the installation on my pc, I
> noticed that by clicking on exit sysinstall and removing my CD in order
> to reboot the system, the installation itself didn't led me into a
> graphical environment. Unfortunately, it left me in a shell, wherein it
> was written Grub. Thus, I do ask you urgently what to do, in the sense
> of being led into a graphical environment. Moreover, only twice, I
> managed to get at the login and the password successfully, but
> afterwards, I couldn't go further. On the other hand, my attempts foiled
> to get at the graphical environment. Don't you think that it might be a
> certain mistake of this version? Please, help me.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ziad Fazah

Unix by itself is a command line environment (cli). You change this by
installing ports such as XFree86. XFree86 is not much better than the cli.
You just have 3 cli's on the monitor at one time.

You can improve on this by adding Window environments such as Gnome and KDE.
The system I use has a resonable fast cpu and quite a bit of memory and I use
KDE-3.1.4. While I type this, XFree86 is using 75MB of memory and there are a
number of kde processes that are using ~23 MB each. Kmail is using 32 MB.
This system has 1048 MB of memory. FreeBSD is content with less but is much
happier when you have more memory.

If you are going to install XFree86, you need to learn about the port system
and X-Windows. They are chapter 4 and 5 in the Handbook. If you aren't
comfortable with English, there are other choices off of the main home page
at http://www.freebsd.org/.

I don't know where to point you because I don't know what computer skills you
have. Annelise Anderson has an article called "For People New to Both FreeBSD
and UNIX". It can be read at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/. There are also
answers to Frequently Asked Question at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html

Kent

--
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html

[Vahric MUHTARYAN]

Hi , You can use startx command to switch X envir.
Could you send what error message occured after startx ?
if you get something like this

(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I think You have a problem to introduce you VGA Card ?

Check Xfree version and You can check you card supported from Xfree or
Not ?
Maybe you need to update your Xfree

You can do it with

Run "pkgdb -F" first
After that run " portupgrade -a "

Best Luck
Vahric

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[mailto:owner-freeb...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of camuflag
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Subject: It's very relevant replying me, please

Dear Mr..

My name is Ziad Fazah. Indeed, after having installed Freebsd version
5.1 on my pc, I found out that its kernel had detected all my hardware
cards. Meanwhile, on having ended up the installation on my pc, I
noticed that by clicking on exit sysinstall and removing my CD in order
to reboot the system, the installation itself didn't led me into a
graphical environment. Unfortunately, it left me in a shell, wherein it
was written Grub. Thus, I do ask you urgently what to do, in the sense
of being led into a graphical environment. Moreover, only twice, I
managed to get at the login and the password successfully, but
afterwards, I couldn't go further. On the other hand, my attempts foiled

to get at the graphical environment. Don't you think that it might be a
certain mistake of this version? Please, help me.

Sincerely,
Ziad Fazah

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[Mark Weinem]

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> Run "pkgdb -F" first After that run " portupgrade -a "

pkgdb and portupgrade are not available after a fresh installation. Use
pkg_add or sysinstall ("Configure" -> "Packages") to install additional
software.

Setting up the XFree86 GUI: sysinstall -> "Configure" -> "XFree86" and
"Desktop" (after reading Chapter 2 of the handbook!)

Greetings, Mark Weinem