I'm a Gentoo bewbie

Trainee

Saturday, September 27th 2003, 8:33am

I just got Gentoo installed, kernel runs fine, X is installed and runs fine. KDE is also emerged straight off the disk (I'm a bewbie, I don't feel like waiting for 10 hours). However when I run the kdm command all the screen does is briefly flash X server and then bump me back to the terminal in text mode (and the colors are changed).

I think my obvious solution to this is that KDE is really hte only thing I emerged post installation. That and X. I'm assuming that I'm missing some of the other hundreds of packages on the Gentoo second disk, but I have no idea where to start looking (and I could very possibly be wrong). Any Gentoo users out there who know what a possible cure could be?

Thanks!

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m4ktub

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Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation: Software Engineer

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Sunday, September 28th 2003, 11:52am

I don't use Gentoo but while you receive a real help form a Gentoo user you can just check the error log of the X server. It normally tells you what failed. (I don't remember the file name but its probably in the /var/log)

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Twiggy794

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Sunday, September 28th 2003, 5:44pm

Great, I'll give that a whirl

Thanks!

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bleakcabal

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Posts: 33

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Tuesday, October 7th 2003, 6:13pm

Have you change your rc.conf file ?
If not try nano -w /etc/rc.conf
Look at the end of the file you should see somewhere where it is written
#XSESSION=Gnome

Change this to

XSESSION=KDE-3.1.4

Replace 3.1.4 with your version of KDE. Maybe you could have more meaningful awnsers in the Gentoo forums under Destop Environments.

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erugger66

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Wednesday, October 8th 2003, 1:24pm

Check out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml

This is an excerpt:

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All that's left is to make sure that X comes up when Gentoo boots. Edit /etc/rc.conf so that DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm".

Code listing 3.6: Editing /etc/rc.conf

# nano -w /etc/rc.conf

Code listing 3.7: /etc/rc.conf -- setting DISPLAYMANAGER

# What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm ]
DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm

Now we just need to make sure that the xdm start-up script is read when booting.

Code listing 3.8: Adding XDM script to default runlevel

# rc-update add xdm default

Reboot, and see if X/KDE comes up!

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fx_68

Beginner

Posts: 15

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Sunday, November 2nd 2003, 6:48am

I am running gentoo. so let me see if i can help

1 what video card are you using. and monitor .

2. can you tell me what your /var/log/XFree86.0.log kicks out or even the screen after you startx crashed.

3. /etc/rc.conf file says.

Then i might be able to help ya on your problem.

also. what stage of install gentoo did you do? i recommed a stage 3 install, unless you want to start from scratch.

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