I just recently upgraded KDE from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3. This went smoothly. I then upgraded my Kernel from 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 to 2.4.20-gentoo-r7.
This is how I did the kernel upgrade. (please let me know if there's a better way to do this. As I'm new to compiling the kernel and the upgrade didn't seem to load the settings that the other kernel was using) As root: cd /usr/src rm linux ln -s linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 linux cd linux mount /boot genkernel Once "genkernel" completes, I go to /grub/grub.conf and modify this so that its pointing to the newer upgraded kernel. Then, umount /boot reboot Now I must of done something wrong because then all of the sudden my desktop and icons are huge and chageing the resolution doesn't seem to do anything to make the overall desktop area smaller. I can manually adjust icon sizes and tool bar settings but it doesn't seem to allow me adjust the overall resolution. Even know I have it set for 1280x1024 24bit depth, everything is still as though I have the desktop set to 800x600. So I started digging around to check some logs and this is what I found. <> = my comments cat kdm.log etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: line 7: /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kdmdesktop: No such file or directory sessions: SessionTypes=Xsession,kde-3.1.2,kde-3.1.3, Changing kdmrc in /usr/kde/3.1 Changing kdmrc in /usr <I have no idea what happened here and am not sure what needs to be done> modprobe: Can't locate module agpgart [drm] failed to load kernel module "agpgart" <why is this happening? It didn't happen before durning initial install> modprobe: Can't locate module radeon [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon" (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. <Again I don't why this is happening now. How is it that when I built the kernel last time that it never complained about my radeon card?> Is there a file still left around like kernel.config with the kernel settings from the kernel I was using before the upgrade. I'm really confused. Now when I look at the kernel with "genkernel --config" it lists my processor as i386 when I'm using an Intel PIII 666eb coppermine. There's also a ton of stuff that I believe that I could turn off but don't know if its safe or not. I.E.. bluetooth, ir stuff, token ring, ect.. ect... I'm using PPP to get out to the internet and I have one nic card for the internal lan. I have a HP Deskjet printer via 25pin parallel cable and a 32MB ATI Radeon vid card. When I did the intial install everything seemed to go very smoothly. After that I emerged KDE which loaded Xfree as well and then used "XFree86 -configure" to create an XF86Config file and am using KDM as my display manager. What did I do wrong? Thanks, Joshua Banks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
