startx hangs on virtualbox 4.0.4/FreeBSD 8.1

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siegfried01

I'm running virtual box 4.0.4 on windows 7/64bits to install FreeBSD 8.1/64bits.

When I type startx I get 3 xterms and a nice display and then it hangs. The mouse does not work and the keyboard does not work.

Thanks,
siegfried
 
Still hangs

New notebook. I'm now running FreeBSD 8.2 i386.

I tried that and it still hangs. Here is the /etc/rc.conf. Did I commit a typo?

Code: 
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Mar  7 15:21:18 2011
# Created: Mon Mar  7 15:21:18 2011
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="FreeBSD_8_2_i368_01.lan"
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
moused_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"
sshd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
 
siegfried01 said:
The mouse does not work and the keyboard does not work.
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[thread=4224]Sticky: Configuring X - read before you ask questions![/thread]
 
It is working now! Thanks!

The kind folks at my local linux users group showed me how to manipulate the virtual box window and eventually startx produced the XWindows display. Maybe I did not wait long enough. Maybe I had to switch to full screen mode. I'm looking for a check box to mark this as resolved -- I guess this forum does not have that feature.
 
Please describe what you did so that others can benefit. VirtualBox 3.whatever just opens a window of the size requested in xorg.conf.
 
siegfried01 said:
When I type startx I get 3 xterms and a nice display and then it hangs.
Thanks,
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Sounds like you got the default X windows environment, you need to install a desktop and specify it in your .xinitrc file. Unless of course you want to use the default.
 
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