On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Dennis Taylor wrote: > I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows > on my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It > is unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install Xorg. When
... xorg is a dependency of KDE and Gnome, just a graphics server... and what is the error are you encountering when emerging Gnome or KDE? > Gnome would not emerge without error, I tried first emerging/configuring > Xorg-X11, but it will not configure correctly for me. When I run X > -config, it produces a file with an extra horizontal synch line that is all > corrupted. When I remove it, then X -config /root/xorg.conf.new will start > and show a "dotted" background like I remember from years ago using > XFree86. The mouse works because moving it around moves the mouse pointer > (X). I can only get out of it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and that leaves my > monitor unreadable. ... this somewhat indicates that X server is somewhat (sic!) working. Did you go through the configure procedure, keyboard mouse, monitor, graphics card, hsync, vsync, do you have all the information needed ready, especially about hsync, vsync supported by your display? However, the choice of the windows manager should not affect the success of an emerge unless something else is wrong. > > Do I need the X server for Gnome and/or KDE? If so, any ideas? .. your call, depends on whether you prefer Gnome or KDE as a desktop environment... > > My use flags are as follows: > > USE="gtk gnome qt kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly" ... this is very basic and does not matter whether you will be emerging Gnome or KDE later on, IMHO, it just creates overhead installing both, although it is an individual choice (of course)... > > I did an emerge --sync last week. .. this doesn't matter much, either and will not take the decision away from you about which window manager you want, and ahh, yes, there are others, too. Follow the instructions about installing the desktop environment in the Gentoo Desktop Guide. > Dennis Taylor > TM ;-) > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
