New kid on the block: PC-BSD

[tuvok]

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Ive never bought the cd's but I am for the first time, when 3.7 comes out. Hmm it comes with 3 cd's, It should have a IDE on there. Ok ive just checked the ports tree, there is a port of eclipse for BSD but it's on the fbsd tree. It's probably on the obsd tree aswell.

[techieMoe]

I may have to give OpenBSD a try, once 3.7 comes out.

[techieMoe]

Well, I realized my problem last night while fiddling around in PC-BSD (I tend to solve a lot of problems by fiddling around with things). Apparently although there was an "XF86Config" file in my /usr/etc/X11/ directory, that wasn't what was being used by PC-BSD. Once I realized this I quickly worked up an "xorg.conf" file and plopped it in that directory and lo and behold! It works.

In other news, PC-BSD has a new release, 0.6, and they're working on 0.7. I've been playing with it and I'm still impressed. The main thing that I like (which is what got me interested in Mepis and VidaLinux) is the simple installer that gives me a functional system right off the bat, which I can then take the time to tweak at my leisure.

[jaboua]

Wonder why they put both an xorg.con and XF86Config file there...

[techieMoe]

Wonder why they put both an xorg.con and XF86Config file there...

They didn't, that's the thing. They put just an XF86Config, but they're running X.org, so when I put an xorg.conf in there it worked.

[jaboua]

Thats even weirder... Probably just something left if they recently converted the OS from xf86 to xorg.

[techieMoe]

Thats even weirder... Probably just something left if they recently converted the OS from xf86 to xorg.

I imagine that's the case. They are still in beta after all. At least I was able to figure out the problem. If their newest version has the same problem I'll probably report it to them.

[Morgoth]

The only minor annoyance I had was that the default resolution for the X environment was 1024x768,

Lucky you, mine is at 800x680, which is the highest I can get it too, are you sure that the config file is stored in /usr/etc/X11?? Since I can't even find the /usr/etc folder, oh well time for bed.