Several questions
Sidney Brooks
1.When I installed BSD, I selected KDE, Gnome, and Enlightenment with KDE as my default. It worked well until as root, I tried "startx enlightenment", which got me into
enlightenment. Now whenever, I type startx as root, I get enlightenment instead of kde. As a user, I still get KDE. Is there any way to reverse what I have done?
2. I have a new computer with an S3G Graphics Inc, Pro Savage video card. When I do XF86Setup, any S3 driver gives me a sceen with elements so big that I can't
even accept the result. This leaves me with Generic VGA, which works but does not fit the window on my computer screen very well. I have used xvidtune, but cannot
get a combination that really fits. Any suggestions.
3. In my first attempt to install BSD, I tried to use the BSD boot loader. It recognized my BSD and Windows partitions, but not my linux partition. I am now using lilo for all
three. I assume that what happened is because my hard disk is too big. Am I right?
4. Since I have a big disk, I tried to load everything, but eventually the installation process froze. I then installed average user with X. Have others had this problem?
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Brian Sobolak
Thursday, November 22, 2001, 10:29:34 AM, you wrote:
SB> I have played with linux fo several years, but just tried Free BSD.
Welcome - enjoy the ride.
SB> 1.When I installed BSD, I selected KDE, Gnome, and Enlightenment
SB> with KDE as my default. It worked well until as root, I tried
SB> "startx enlightenment", which got me into enlightenment. Now
SB> whenever, I type startx as root, I get enlightenment instead of
SB> kde. As a user, I still get KDE. Is there any way to reverse what
SB> I have done?
I think you want to check your .xinitrc file in each user's home
directory. So check /root and /home/yourusername and see what's
different. You can change that file to change the default.
SB> 2. I have a new computer with an S3G Graphics Inc, Pro Savage
SB> video card. When I do XF86Setup, any S3 driver gives me a sceen
SB> with elements so big that I can't even accept the result. This
SB> leaves me with Generic VGA, which works but does not fit the
SB> window on my computer screen very well. I have used xvidtune, but
SB> cannot get a combination that really fits. Any suggestions.
Ahh, Xwindows. Have you tried checking the vendor sites for the specs
on your card and the specs on your monitor to make sure you know what
it can handle? It might give you some suggestions about how to tweak
the defaults that are suggested.
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SB> 4. Since I have a big disk, I tried to load everything, but
SB> eventually the installation process froze. I then installed
SB> average user with X. Have others had this problem?
You might want to check the mailing list archive to see if others have
had this problem. If you don't find any information there, you might
want to try ques...@freebsd.org - that's the general mailing list
for technical support.
brian
ps I think you want to look at your mailer. Do you really have the
email addresses sid...@freebsd.org and bro...@freebsd.org? This
showed up in the reply-to header.
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Annelise Anderson
> I have played with linux fo several years, but just tried Free BSD.
>
>
> 4. Since I have a big disk, I tried to load everything, but
eventually the installation process froze. I then installed
average user with X. Have others had this problem?
What you want with a big disk is developer with X, which gives
you sources for everything in the base system. You also want
ports and linux binary support.
What you don't want is Packages > All. There are about 1800
third-party software packages on the installation CD-ROM (or
available from FTP) and you wouldn't want all of them, e.g.,
multiple versions of Netscape, software applications in several
foreign languages, etc. I'm not sure how much space this would
take and what conflicts might result that you'd have to resolve
during the process.
Annelise
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