problem with gnome

Oz · Apr 3, 2010

Well i just have installed xorg and gnome, and made gnome my default enviroment manager. When I reboot i get first this message:

Then when the system starts i get the same message and then this:

Had someone ever seen this and can help me? Please i will apreciate your help cause I am new on freeBSD and UNIX.

sixtydoses · Apr 3, 2010

Well I don't know about the first one.. but for the second, for a start, why not try creating the folders that nautilus complained about (if the folders don't exist).

$ mkdir /home/oscar/Desktop
$ mkdir /home/oscar/.nautilus

And make sure you create those folders as user oscar, not root.

Here's mine:

Code:

drwx------   4 od  od       1024 Apr  3 10:51 Desktop
drwx------   3 od  od        512 Sep 19  2009 .nautilus

And.. well yea DD is right about learning the basic of UNIX. It is very important.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=75788&postcount=12

DutchDaemon · Apr 3, 2010

Using the right forum is next on the reading list.

Oz · Apr 3, 2010

Ok ty i am going to do that. Maybe the first error appears because of the second...

Oz · Apr 3, 2010

sixtydoses,
i wrote the code u said but got this:

"/usr: write failed,filesystem is full
mkdir: /home/oscar/Desktop: No space left on device"

Is that something bad?

sixtydoses · Apr 3, 2010

Well you can't even create a directory, so yea, it is bad. What $ df -h tells you?

Oz · Apr 3, 2010

well i reinstalled all but this time i installed gnome and xorg from the instalation of freeBSD now everything is working. =)
The problem i have now is the resolution because i cant modify the file xorg.conf and i dont know how to log as root in the terminal.

sixtydoses · Apr 3, 2010

Good, practice makes perfect

The command you're looking for is su().

Code:

[od@meh ~]su -
Password:
root@meh:~#

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html

Now that you have it up and running, pick up the basic UNIX book and dig on the commands. Have fun

Oz · Apr 3, 2010

Well i can modify that now.. but if i modify xorg.conf the resolution in gnome also will be cahnaged? The problem is that in gnome i can only use the 800x600 resolution. My xorg.conf have this:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dri2"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"     	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen" 	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "vesa"
	VendorName  "InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH"
	BoardName   "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     32
 		Modes     "1366x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

I have modified one of the resolutions but i still have the problem.

atomicplayboy · Apr 3, 2010

For starters, I don't think 32 is a valid value for depth in that last "Display" subsection. Try removing that and using the depth of 24.

Oz · Apr 4, 2010

but those are the quantities i got of the screen of my laptop. But anyway i am gonna try that.

atomicplayboy · Apr 4, 2010

From the xorg.conf(5) man page:

Note: depth means the number of bits in a pixel that are actually used to determine the pixel colour. 32 is not a valid depth value. Most hardware that uses 32 bits per pixel only uses 24 of them to hold the colour information, which means that the colour depth is 24, not 32.

Oz · Apr 4, 2010

mmmi tried a lot of things i i think that the problem is because xorg cant make an inform of my screen, think the problem is because i have it installed in virtual box and i have to install something called guest aditions but i cant because i click on that option and nothing happens.

Oz · Apr 4, 2010

it is sun virtual box

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