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When I started with the BSDs I was also very frustrated and ended up throwing away my CDs. After several tries I got FreeBSD 5.x up and running. But I broke stuff a lot. I suggest that you regroup and take some time away from the BSDs if you're getting stressed about it. The best way to ensure success is to read the handbook. The handbook is excellent. You will get there.
Both ports and pkg will download from the internet. As I said X is not part of the base system (The FreeBSD OS), but is available as a port or pkg. If you want to know how FreeBSD works, best thing to do is read the (really good) handbook as hitest suggested.
In your /etc/make.conf use configuration option WITH_NEW_XORG=YES if you have an AMD, Intel, or Nvidia chip and wish to use the latest mesa libraries. This option will use Mesa-10.x or later rather than 7.x series for legacy cards.
In your /etc/make.conf use configuration option WITH_NEW_XORG=YES if you have an AMD, Intel, or Nvidia chip and wish to use the latest mesa libraries. This option will use Mesa-10.x or later rather than 7.x series for legacy cards.
is a line you enter in the make.conf file located in the /etc directory.
This allows you to use a newer version of LibMesa than the one normally used which is the older version used by many legacy video cards which is version 7.11.2 I think.
If you have a newer video cards from Intel, Nvidia, or AMD use this edited in line to get better support when you run:
It downloaded around 90MB stuff.
Now when I run command startx, I see xterm window.
This means that you succesfully installed and started Xorg. The windowmanager you see (twm) is the default and very simple. You probably want a more useful windowmanager or desktop environment, the choice is yours which one you like best.
This means that you succesfully installed and started Xorg. The windowmanager you see (twm) is the default and very simple. You probably want a more useful windowmanager or desktop environment, the choice is yours which one you like best.
You don't need to (you can use FreeBSD from twm), but it certainly makes life easier for the BSD starter. All windowmanagers / desktop environments that are available on linux are available for FreeBSD.
KDE and Xfce are your best bets. Be forewarned than some automount features might not work on FreeBSD, so you'll need to manually mount and dismount portable media due to the lack of udisks support on FreeBSD.
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