FreeBSD 8.0 i386 KDE and GNOME issues

bpappan

bpappan

I have installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my intel pc.After starting Gnome the help is not available. The window states "No such file found" whenever I click the help button. Alternatively I started KDE and then found out that the mouse hangs on KDE startup.
And Gnome does not show the list of all users at the login screen.

Anyone please help...
 
Make sure /proc is mounted. Also make sure hald and dbus are both running.
 
SirDice,

mounted /proc and also added
Code: 
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
to the /etc/rc.conf file. Most of the greyed out menus and buttons got enabled. But still the problem with gnome-help remains.
 
bpappan: Could you be missing /usr/local/bin/gnome-help? Its a soft link to /usr/local/bin/yelp. If you need to (re)install yelp, its in ports (x11/yelp).
 
Thanks paean.The help thing is working fine after I installed yelp
But KDE is still not working. Once KDE is started the mouse freezes..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
You're welcome.

So your mouse works fine in GNOME but not KDE? Can you confirm the keyboard works in KDE?

It might be helpful to see your /var/log/Xorg.0.log
 
paean,

Thank you .Mouse issue resolved. Only the reboot issue remains.Once I issue the reboot command the screen goes blank and I have to manually press the reset button for reboot.
 
Hmm, not sure about that one. You could start by testing if
Code: 
reboot -q
works. Its not the preferred method of restarting, but it may work for you until someone else solves your problem.
 
Sounds like an Xorg issue. What videocard do you have? How up to date are your ports?
 
SirDice,

I have an ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 VideoCard. I have the latest FreeBSD 8.0 Release ports collection.
 
SirDice

All said and done. The BIOS upgrade did the trick. Everything's working fine now. Thanks a million
 
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