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ario
April 30th, 2009, 11:33
Hi.
I just installed 7.1 releas.
Then restarted my system. Loged in. And nothing happened. Just an empty $ prompt:(
I tried to run "startx" but it prompts me:
startx: not found
Is this means I've installed a minimalist command line system? Even after downloading 2GB iso image from web? Oh my God!:(
Any idea how to start a graphical desktop in this OS?
Thanks.
ario
April 30th, 2009, 11:40
Also tried Xorg -configure but again prompts me:
Xorg: not found
Tried xorg, XORG, xOrg, Xorg, xorG and so on... but the same error.
Any Idea?
Thanks.
tangram
April 30th, 2009, 12:03
How did you exactly FreeBSD? Which distribution did you install?
By you description it seems you didn't install Xorg and are faced with a FreeBSD base system. Xorg is a third party application that needs to be either installed as part of a distribution set [1] or installed afterwards [2].
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-choosing.html
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html
roddierod
April 30th, 2009, 13:02
Also keep in mind that there is no default Graphical Desktop for FreeBSD. You get twm once you install xorg.
You'll need to try PC-BSD for a default Graphical Desktop.
jb_fvwm2
April 30th, 2009, 19:00
You can find large-ish twmrc probably which would serve as
a lightweight wm until you decide on something for the
long term.
fronclynne
April 30th, 2009, 19:16
Is this means I've installed a minimalist command line system?
pkg_add -r xorg
b) (may be optional) configure it Xorg --configure
c) hoho, that silly hal thing might bite you. Watch out!
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=10445&postcount=6
d) find a window manager you like (NB they all suck. I gave up years ago and just use x11-wm/twm (which used to be installed by default (and may still be)))
e) [not used]
f) Seven long-haired Jesus freaks in a chartreuse micro-bus.
Beastie
May 1st, 2009, 09:08
pkg_add -r xorg
b) (may be optional) configure it Xorg --configure
Even after downloading 2GB iso image from web?
Or use pkg_add xorg<some_version_here> (without -r for remote) from the ISOs. 2GB is enough downloads, don't you think?
As for the configuration, you may also use "xorgconfig". On my system for instance, "Xorg --configure" used to crash while "xorgconfig" worked like a charm.
You then move the configuration file from ./xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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