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pfaffoliverPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
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It boots up no prob, i login no problem but it leaves me at the command prompt (if thats wat u call it - im up for correction) Basicaly i need someone to tell me how to get it to boot a gui like Gnome or KDE. I installed the relevant packages but am stuck now. All help appreciated. Thanx!


Hi im brand new to free bsd though i have considerable experience with windows + linux. I managed to install the 4.8 stable version from the cd  no prob. It boots up no prob, i login no problem but it leaves me at the command prompt (if thats wat u call it - im up for correction) Basicaly i need someone to tell me how to get it to boot a gui like Gnome or KDE. I installed the relevant packages but am stuck now. All help appreciated. Thanx!
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bmk1stPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...ndbook/x11.html
FreeBSD handbook is always useful.

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SilverlokkPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
I don't use either, so I'm not sure how you'd do it, but I think you start kde from the command prompt with the command startkde. You can even get a graphical logon prompt by modifying your /etc/rc.conf (I think). Might be in the kde man pages, if there are any. Or, it might be in the kde or gnome Web sites. I think there might be something here on DevShed, but I can't be too sure about that.
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kfickertPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
if you haven't already, you need to go into post install and configure x-windows and select your desktop of choice, whether it be KDE, Gnome, etc.
Then at the command prompt type: "start x" (minus the quotes of course) and it should boot into X and your selected desktop.
startkde should work too.

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kfickertPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
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It boots up no prob, i login no problem but it leaves me at the command prompt (if thats wat u call it - im up for correction) Basicaly i need someone to tell me how to get it to boot a gui like Gnome or KDE. I installed the relevant packages but am stuck now. All help appreciated. Thanx!


yep that i did...
I just now started using FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop/workstation.  I had some issues getting my video card and mouse to work correctly until I found the "Auto" dectect setting for the mouse.  Now everything works like a champ.

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