New to FreeBSD

[tiuno]

Hey guys,

First of all thank you for receiving me in your community. This is fantastic OS and I finally made the move to FreeBSD. I got some issues though and I'd like some help to finish my set up.

I installed KDE 4 successfully though there are somethings not working, or at least no properly. HAL does not startup automatically I need to do it manually every time I start up my computer, even though it's set up in rc.conf.

Also once I'm logged in and KDE is started if I open terminal, close it and open again it, it would not work, I can't manage to reopen terminal I need to reboot. And last but not least I can't setup my screen resolution.

My system is:
Intel Pentium D 930
Intel GMA 950 (VGA 1400x900 Display Connected)
Intel 945G Chipset
1 GB 533 MHz RAM
40 GB SATA HDD

Oh and I'd like some advice. Is there a way to install Google Chrome, or what stable web browser that support HTML5 would you recommend for FreeBSD with KDE 4.

Thanks in advance,
Colin

[ondra_knezour]

HAL does not startup automatically I need to do it manually every time I start up my computer, even though it's set up in rc.conf
Show us yours /etc/rc.conf. How do you start hald manually?

Oh and I'd like some advice. Is there a way to install Google Chrome, or what stable web browser that support HTML5 would you recommend for FreeBSD with KDE 4.

I am using www/chromium, open source base of Google's Chrome browser.

[tiuno]

Show us your /etc/rc.conf. How do you start hald manually?
The command I use to start it manually is:
service hald start

[tiuno]

hostname=""
keymap="us.iso.kbd"
ifconfig_re0="DHCP"
ifconfig_re0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
sshd_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
powerd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
local_startup="${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d"
kdm4_enable="YES"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"


That's my rc.conf file.

[SirDice]

Have a look at /var/log/messages. Any reasons why HAL won't start will be mentioned there.

[tiuno]

Jan 1 00:01:11 kernel: pid 1855 (hald), uid 560: exited on signal 11
Jan 1 00:01:11 kernel: pid 1856 (hald), uid 560: exited on signal 11
That's all I could find.

[SirDice]

Signal 11 means it's crashing. Did you install from packages or ports?

[tiuno]

From ports. Should I reinstall?

[SirDice]

You can try. Also make sure you don't use any CFLAGS or similar in /etc/make.conf.

[tiuno]

I am going start from scratch, so hope it works. As for the terminal or video settings do you have any advice?

[ondra_knezour]

...as for the terminal or video settings do you have any advice?

What are you trying to do or what is your problem? At least for me was not your first description understable.

[thuglife]

The local_startup line in your rc.conf is obsolete, remove it.