Hi
i've been linuxing and windowsing and wants something new
i eagerly tried freebsd 5.3, but after installation somethings that should be crystal clear .. isn't. so please bear with me

1) tab completion. the root user has it but the normal user don't? how do i change this?
2) at sysinstall i got X-user option, it came with Xorg(? i assume it is), and then i installed fluxbox, instead of going directly to fluxbox, it goes to twm that i have to exit and then do "startfluxbox", and there's that annoying login console that if i kill i go back to system console.
3) no usb mouse, at the sysinstall, none of the dev's looked remotely familiar, although on this i'm sure it is well doc'ed and it's not urgent so i'll look for myself if it's not a two line answer.
4) for the pkg_add and etc, do i HAVE TO download all the tbz files from the site manually? like i read something (from the main freebsd site?)
5) system beep sound, how to get rid of it?

i'm sorry for my bombardment of questions
thank you for the effort!
Tom

2. Create a file in your user home directory called .xinitrc and in that file place:

4. Say you wanted to install gaim. You just do
and the system will go out and fetch the package and install it, and anything it depends on that isn't already installed. An even better way of doing things is to go to /usr/ports/net/gaim and do make install clean. This, providing you installed the ports, will go out, fetch the source code, apply any FreeBSD patches required, then compile it on your system.

ahh, thanks a lot!

1) You probably set the user's shell to "sh" use chsh to fix that. Make it tcsh or bash if you have bash installed.

2) Copy the contents of .xinitrc to .xsession and make sure .xsession is executable. then edit /etc/ttys and turn the line with xdm in it to on:

I have a feeling this is what you are asking about. You want the graphical login right? And you want the X server to restart itself if you kill it. This is one way to get that done.

3) /dev/ums0 is probably your mouse. BUT... /dev/sysmouse is what you want to tell Xorg to use (unless you are having major problems and need X to physically control the mouse).

4) You have an answer already.

5) No idea what you are talking about

thanks a lot!

for 5), i meant that annoying beep with you are working in a console, and you hit the backspace key one too many times. and the system beeps, or when you tab complete and there are more than one possible choice the computer can complete

1) type set -o emacs for "bash style" function. set -o vi if you're feeling adventurous. I use vi mode myself.

5) set nobeep in ~/.cshrc

awesome, that helped a lot!

however, i did make install clean in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer/, and the resulting mplayer was optimized for a 32kb cache and some ridiculously low cpu freq.

Is this normal? or can I change the port compilation optimization info?
thanks

Look in the Makefile for the mplayer port. There are a TON of knobs for the port that control just about all the compile options.