KDE still wont come up

[cto2mac]

I have reinstalled again and followed the advice of the forums and to a T followed the install guide and desktop guide and gotten the xserver to start, i even managed to get the virtual screen size to be the same as my physical screen size, but the next step according to the desktop guide is to type kdm, i have typed it and no dice. I did the emerge kde and when it finished the computer said that here were like 2 config files that had to be updated and to type emerg --help config and that only confused me more. I just want my hard earned linux, my wife is really not happy with the computer not being able to be used for normal user applications since most of them run from kde or gnome. please help.

[Guest]

Hi
First, check if kdm exist ( It should be in /usr/kde/(the number of your kde here)/bin
Check if your kde path is in your path.
If not add it to it, logout and login (should be done automatically). You should have in /etc/env.d something like kdelibs, kdedir and maybe kde-env.

gl

[Guest]

to see what files are in /etc that need to be updated run