On Jan 30, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Jozef Baum wrote:
Many thanks to everyone who answered my previous e-mail about this
subject
on this list or by private e-mail.
As some of you suggested, I have installed PC-BSD (http://
www.pcbsd.com/). I
am sure a Unix guru would not like to install FreeBSD in this way,
as it
doesn't offer many choices. But it is just wonderful for a Unix
newbie like
me. At the end of the installation, the GUI, the cable Internet
connection,
and even the sound system worked fine. Some configuration still
needs to be
done (printing and German keyboard). But now at least I have a
system I can
use right away to do some usefull work with, and to further explore.
I will try to configure the printing myself before perhaps
eventually asking
some specific questions about it here.
I found an interesting explanation about the configuration of the
German
keyboard, so if some other German speaking newbie asks about it:
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/FreeBSD/doc/umlaute/umlaute.html
Giorgos Keramidas asked me:
Can you explain *how* you configured your X11 desktop?
Like explained in the handbook. First I created an xorg.conf.new
configuration skeleton file with
# Xorg -configure
Then I tested this configuration with
# Xorg -config xorg.conf.new
The result was a "Mode not supported" message on the display screen
until I
found out the HorizSync and VertRefresh values to write in the Section
"Monitor" which were supported, and which were much narrower than the
hardware manufacturers specifications.
The display adapter is an nVidia GeForce4 MX with integrated GPU
(which uses
64 MB of the system's 512 MB physical working memory). The LCD
monitor is a
Proview 780.
You may have actually been limited by your video card in this
respect. Given that it is a GeForce4, the options for resolution and
scanlines and stuff may have been lower. I know that when I went from
a GF4 to a GF6 my system's available resolution increased quite a
bit. Too bad though that my monitor doesn't though... :(.
Take care and hopefully this time around things will be better for you.
-Garrett
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