I recently installed FreeBSD 9.2x64 on:
*HP XW4400 -Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz
*3,or 4 MB Ram
*2x 69.3 GB SATA Drives
*DVD and DVDRW Drives
*Asus EAX550/TD/256M ATI Radeon video card
Monitor: KDS 17i 17" SVGA CRT
I updated FreeBSD,installed the ports tree and updated both by the usual commands.
I installed Xorg and it works fine, probably using the VESA driver. I downloaded the desktop-installer script from http://www.acadix.biz and ran it to install XFCE4.
It worked really well and my commendations go out to its author! It saved me a lot of time.
I still have to edit the xorg file, as per the Gnome article on https://cooltrainer.org/2012/01/02/a-freebsd-9-desktop-how-to/ to, hopefully get the ATI Radeon card working.
Problem #1:
It works great, but, sometimes, it won't let me log in even with the correct UID and password, so I have to CTRL-ALT-F1 and log into the text-based system, then type
I installed sound and downloaded xfce-mixer and tested it at Youtube -using Firefox.It works good, although on some videos, it complains about wanting a Flash Player upgrade.
Problem #2:
I installed Chromium and Firefox. Chromium can't finish loading a website. Is this because it needs the Linux Emulation layer? Firefox is fine.
Problem #3:
I added linux_load="YES" to loader.conf, but,when I tried to download linux_base-f10, I got an error message about it not being available.
BTW: Is IPFW installed by default?
If not,what is the correct file name,so I can download it(I tried IPFW,but,received a "not found" error.).
(I'll add that in when I'm on that PC next)
*HP XW4400 -Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz
*3,or 4 MB Ram
*2x 69.3 GB SATA Drives
*DVD and DVDRW Drives
*Asus EAX550/TD/256M ATI Radeon video card
Monitor: KDS 17i 17" SVGA CRT
I updated FreeBSD,installed the ports tree and updated both by the usual commands.
I installed Xorg and it works fine, probably using the VESA driver. I downloaded the desktop-installer script from http://www.acadix.biz and ran it to install XFCE4.
It worked really well and my commendations go out to its author! It saved me a lot of time.
I still have to edit the xorg file, as per the Gnome article on https://cooltrainer.org/2012/01/02/a-freebsd-9-desktop-how-to/ to, hopefully get the ATI Radeon card working.
Problem #1:
It works great, but, sometimes, it won't let me log in even with the correct UID and password, so I have to CTRL-ALT-F1 and log into the text-based system, then type
startx
, then it lets me in fine. Once in a while, though, it lets me in straight in from the login screen, so I'm a bit baffled. I installed sound and downloaded xfce-mixer and tested it at Youtube -using Firefox.It works good, although on some videos, it complains about wanting a Flash Player upgrade.
Problem #2:
I installed Chromium and Firefox. Chromium can't finish loading a website. Is this because it needs the Linux Emulation layer? Firefox is fine.
Problem #3:
I added linux_load="YES" to loader.conf, but,when I tried to download linux_base-f10, I got an error message about it not being available.
BTW: Is IPFW installed by default?
If not,what is the correct file name,so I can download it(I tried IPFW,but,received a "not found" error.).
(I'll add that in when I'm on that PC next)