Nothing works

[fretje]

Can someone help me?
I bought FreeBSD for a computer. I installed it. I run it, and now I can't even login. I type 'root' at login, but when I want to run KDE, with 'xinit' at the command line, it starts up a window, in which nothing can be typed, and with a cross in the middle (mouse pointer?) that doesn't move. To exit this marasme I have to reboot the computer. What is all this?

Ward

[tangram]

Don't login as root to run a desktop environment. Create a user for your everyday work and add it to the wheel group instead.

I suggest that you go over the FreeBSD's Handbook Chapter 5 The X Window System (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#X11) especially section 5.7 Desktop Environments (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#X11-WM).

[fretje]

wow, there is a FreeBSD handbook, that is great, I'll read it. I also discovered the mouse pointer is moveable now, with the touchpad, but USB mouse doesn't work. I can select the window now, and I can type things.

[NZ3BSD]

Try adding the following lines to /etc/rc.conf

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

save changes and restart.

[Beastie]

Try adding the following lines to /etc/rc.conf

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

save changes and restart.
Or simply run them:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hal start