IIRC there is a desktop howto on the gentoo docs page. you are really best setting kdm as your display manager and then running X by starting the xdm service ( /etc/init.d/xdm start - yes the service is called xdm even though it will be starting kdm)
first of all just try starting X by running kdm (as root). It should bring up your login screen at which you put your username, password and preferred window manager. If that works exit X then set your DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm in /etc/rc.conf then try starting X again by /etc/init.d/xdm start then if you are happy with that make it start every time (assuming thats what you want) by rc-update add xdm default. Believe me its worth persevering. If you are still haing problems get back to me or the list. Also I'm not sure what sites you have tried, but forums.gentoo.org is brilliant. The mailing list is good but high volume. for a quick answer the #gentoo channel on irc.freenode.net can be very helpful. On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:14:50+1200 Brian Connell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > although I have had Linux on my Computer for some time....Redhat at > one time, Mandrake9 now. > I'm still just basically a point and clicker. > > So I decided to try to install gentoo, as a means of learning more > about Linux. > And as Yoda might have remarked............... Learning I am. > > I started with the stage3 livecd, as I only have dialup 56K > connection, and installed by chrooting from > my existing Mdk9 distro. > > It's taken me over 2 weeks so far, but I'm almost there. : ) I > couldn't believe how long it took to emerge X and KDE. > Also I had probs. with my USB mouse and Geforc4 card, among other > things, > > However the thing I'm stuck on at the moment is when I type "startx" > from the prompt ....as root presently, although I have > tried adding a user to no avail .... kde tries to start, I get the > kde-3.1 startup screen, then a popup message box saying .... > > "error setting up inter-process communications for kde. > could not read network connection list /root/.DCOPServer_127.0.0.1 > local host _0 > please check that dcopserver is running" > > .......I am then returned to the prompt,where there are other > interesting messages waiting such as.... > > DCOPClient: attachInternal. attach failed authentification rejected, > reason ..none of the authentification protocols specified > are supported and host based authentification failed. > ICE connection rejected. > kdeinit DCOPServer could not be started. > Warning: connect ( ) failed: connection refused. > Error: can't contact kdeinit (end)..... > I originally wrote this down longhand, so may have lost something in > the retelling, but I think its accurate. > > I have tried googling on this one, and have found nothing useful, > except that heaps of other folks are having the same problem. > The advice on the net seemed to range from the arcane to the heroic, > and I really don't want to mess up the distro at this stage, > if I can avoid it, hoping someone can help. > > Thanks, > Brian Connell. > > > > > > >
