newb questions

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, so I got this freebsd server up and running, even able to ssh to it. questions: 1. when I run startx it auto logs me in on a minimal gui ( twm?). I installed gnome, I think, and want to log in using gnome, how do I change that? 2. I cannot su - to root, it says sorry. pam_group didn't seem

Re: newb questions

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:16:36AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: 1. when I run startx it auto logs me in on a minimal gui ( twm?). I installed gnome, I think, and want to log in using gnome, how do I change that? 2. I cannot su - to root, it says sorry. pam_group didn't seem like the

Re: newb questions

2008-11-19 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 14:35:06 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:16:36AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: 1. when I run startx it auto logs me in on a minimal gui ( twm?). I installed gnome, I think, and want to log in using gnome, how do I change that? Change

Re: newb questions

2008-11-19 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:16:36AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: 1. when I run startx it auto logs me in on a minimal gui ( twm?). I installed gnome, I think, and want to log in using gnome, how do I change that? 2. I cannot su - to root, it says sorry. pam_group

Re: newb questions

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 19 2008, Mel wrote: Change .xinitrc. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html got it, thanks! As for #2, you need to add your username to the wheel group in /etc/group.  That's all.  (You will have to log out then back in for the changes to take effect) wheel group,

Re: newb questions

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 19 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I think boot0cfg is the tool you'll want to use for this.  I've never been in this situation, so I don't have a command to give you.  You can use boot0cfg -v disk (e.g. boot0cfg -v ad0) to get information about the boot0 configuration. nice,

newb questions about RAID, sil3112

2007-02-10 Thread Jason Corkum
I'm running 6.2-RELEASE on an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard. It has the Silicon Image sil3112 RAID chip on it driving two SATA drives. After much searching, it seems that it's fake RAID is not supported. No problem, but dmesg sees it and it's status: ad4: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at