[afnog] FreeBSD

[Kondwani Wella]

Dear All,

I collected all suggestions and tried what you good people suggested. Now I
have got the GUI up.

Thanks,

Kondwani Wella
Assistant Librarian
University of Malawi
Kamuzu College of Nursing
P/Bag 1, Lilongwe, Malawi
Tel: +265 (0) 1 751 622
Cell: +265 (0) 8 3080631

-----Original Message-----
From: Hervey Allen [mailto:hervey at nsrc.org]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:19 PM
To: kwella at kcn.unima.mw
Cc: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Re: [afnog] FreeBSD

Kondwani Wella wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a novice user of FreeBSD. I have installed it on a PII machine and
the
> installation was successful. I can login. BUT I am failing to configure
GUI.
> I tried to configure XFree86 but I am getting a message that "cannot find
> Xfree86" Have I done anything wrongly.

Assuming you are using a newer version of FreeBSD (5.4 or
6), I would recommend configuring X Window using Xorg. You
should definitely review this section of the handbook in
detail as you attempt this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

The instructions here are quite helpful.

Good luck!

Sincerely,
        - Hervey Allen

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