[gentoo-user] First Day with Gentoo

2005-05-11 Thread cfk
Gentlemen: I am working with the universal livecd. I untarred the stage3 tarball and had just gotten to section 6 where I chroot. After that, name resolution on the network ceased to work. I can ping by address. There is a valid /etc/resolv.conf. I rebooted from the cd, mounted the newly

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-12 Thread cfk
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 18:38, Mark Knecht wrote: Gentlemen: After finishing the installation, I cannot seem to bring the eth0 interface up. When I try to manually ifconfig eth0 addr broadcast netmask up, I get a message of no such device. So, I must have foobarred another incantation

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-12 Thread cfk
On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:12, Daniel Drake wrote: cfk wrote: I can do a modprobe 3c95x and lsmod shows it is loaded. I can then do an ifconfig eth0 up and the interface is up (ping www.yahoo.com works). The file /etc/conf.d/net has two uncommented lines: iface_eth0=dhcp gateway=eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-12 Thread cfk
On Thursday 12 May 2005 11:49, Mark Knecht wrote: Charles,    I'm glad that you now have networking. That's pretty crucial stuff.    I want to clarify one thing here. You are now fully booting this new machine using Gentoo, correct? Grub is installed and you're booted up to the command line.

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread cfk
Gentlemen: Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, and the others all have X functionality. The computer is an Intel 810 motherboard with the i810 integrated graphics device. I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread cfk
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:13, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/14/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known functional Fedora X installation. So that config is wrong for this distro. Try running the xorgconfig program and make your own config

[gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread cfk
Pardon the slightly naive question. I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. How do I go about keeping the source for later

[gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-20 Thread cfk
Thank you for the help on keepwork. Next question. My computer has spend the day emerging kde. The function 'startx' does work with 'twm'. So, I can test kde before changing /etc/X11/initrc/xinitrc from 'twm ' to 'kde , what is a good way to do that? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-20 Thread cfk
The function 'startx' does work with 'twm'. So, I can test kde before changing /etc/X11/initrc/xinitrc from 'twm ' to 'kde , what is a good way to do that? create ~/.xinitrc, put startkde in it. If you kde is screwed, ctrl+alt+f2/3/4/5/6, login and nuke it. If you can't login locally,

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-21 Thread cfk
On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote: Read the Fine Manual Which Fine Manual are we talking about here for kde and where might it be found? set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc/rc.conf then rc-update add xdm boot /etc/init.d/xdm start On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 19:09 -0700, cfk

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-21 Thread cfk
On Saturday 21 May 2005 10:27, ZeeGeek wrote: On 5/21/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote: Read the Fine Manual Which Fine Manual are we talking about here for kde and where might it be found? set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc

[gentoo-user] Adding Menus in KDE

2005-05-21 Thread cfk
I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE, than you very much. Now is the time to understand how menus are added to the task bar. I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just emerged are added to the menu. I know how to create a task bar button from a menu item, but I dont know how