Well, I have gotten the screen to look decent on the FreeBSD system … Seems that using the proper drivers for the video card was the reason that I was locked into 75Hz … I think it’s a feature of the latest version of xorg … It has the ability to autodetect the settings of the monitor and video card … Like I said, I have a cheap monitor … I think a CompUSA special … It’s an Envision … It also detected that it’s a EN-910e … It also found the video card … VendorName “ATI Technologies Inc” BoardName “Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]” BusID “PCI:1:0:0” … So, I took out the settings for the Radeon and I think it is defaulting to some sort of VGA setting, but even though it displays as being at 86Hz, it looks much the same as the MS Windows desktop at 60Hz … Well, better as Firefox and the resulting programs display the fonts better in my opinion …
I also got the sound working … Was actually quite painless, but I think it is something that requires a boot … I was just restarting the system, and when I lost the sound and saw some settings being still set, I figured I would try cold booting … That is what solved it and the sound is working perfectly now … I ripped a CD and have played the resulting MP3s … In fact they’re playing as I type this … I have Firefox and Thunderbird working … I have installed the gnome-fifth-toe, and I’ll get to installing some others soon … As it sits, I could use this desktop exclusively except for playing Counter-Strike and creating graphics for the paper … More to come …