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Old 9th May 2008
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Originally Posted by scottro View Post
I was going to argue about my posts with Corey_James--then I saw the other Scott's sig, and decided against it. <OK, scottro FTW>
This is what I do with my installs (gnome2-lite, I do more but getting to a workable desktop is the first step if you're new to FreeBSD).

1. portsnap fetch
2. portsnap extract (after this, you only need to use portsnap fetch;portsnap update to update the ports tree.)
3. Xorg -configure
4. Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new (IIRC that's the line to launch Xorg with the auto detected settings.
5. cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
6. cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite;make install clean (this will "break" a few times, press scroll lock and use arrow keys to move back into the build then make deinstall clean;make install clean to update the "broken" port)
7. cd /usr/ports/x11/gdm;make install clean
8. add gnome_enable to your /etc/rc.conf file.
9. restart and enjoy .
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