New to FreeBSD, quick question

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MrNemo

I've been using Ubuntu for a while and decided I wanted to try something new. I installed FreeBSD without any problem and decided to do something simple to see how it ran. The first thing I wanted to do was install the game xjump, so I installed xorg and xjump, but It keeps coming up with an error that says it can't open the display. I can see that FreeBSD will take a little more know how to run, and I was wondering what I needed to run this game. Thanks in advance.
 
Good Question. I was able to successfully run w3m, startx worked but crashed right away, and running xjump with xinit works but also crashes right away. With Ubuntu I didn't really have to worry about xorg or x11 so please bear with me if I am misunderstanding something.
 
So probably the first thing to do would be to get xorg set up fully: X11 Configuration

When you say "crashed right away", specifics would be very useful. For example, did you see a graphic screen but couldn't use the keyboard or mouse? Did the screen go black and even ctrl-alt-f2 didn't work?

Eventually these threads end up needing to see your xorg.conf (if you have one), and /var/log/Xorg.0.log. So let's get those out of the way now.
 
When I ran startx and xinit they both came up with a graphical screen, startx with two windows, and xinit with the games home screen, but they both became unresponsive. I did not try to switch to another console. I have no xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log is empty. I'm reading x11 configuration now.
 
MrNemo said:
When I ran startx and xinit they both came up with a graphical screen, startx with two windows, and xinit with the games home screen, but they both became unresponsive. I did not try to switch to another console.
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Usually this is because you don't have dbus and hal enabled and started:
/etc/rc.conf
Code: 
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
# service dbus start
# service hald start

(It's possible to go without those, but let's not get complicated just yet.)

Even without those, ctrl-alt-f2 should still work to switch back to a console.
 
Tried xinit again, and it froze on the title screen, but alt-f2 does switch to another console and that console works. /var/log/Xorg.0.log is not empty, but I need to find a way to copy the text.
 
MrNemo said:
Tried xinit again, and it froze on the title screen, but alt-f2 does switch to another console and that console works. /var/log/Xorg.0.log is not empty, but I need to find a way to copy the text.
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you can install wgetpaste and pipe the output of your log files to it.

wblock said:
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# service dbus start
# service hald start
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Man I have been working with FreeBSD for over a decade and I have learned more new( new to me) commands from you wblock. I have always typed the full path for starting and stopping rc daemons( i.e. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/service restart). The service() looks like a nice alternative.
 
If you have a Ubuntu background and want to have a working desktop, give PCBSD a try. :)
 
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