How to install kde from package CD

[menciaj]

I am trying to install kde from the package CD because Gentoo did not recognized my network card which i have to deal later.

I do the following
mount /mnt/cdrom

export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/All
emerge --usepkg /mnt/cdrom/All/kdebase-3.2.0.tbz2

I also try
export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/kde-base
emerge --usepkg /mnt/cdrom/kde-base/kdebase-3.2.0.tbz2

Sometimes i get the following error "Category info missing from info chunk, abortion"

How can install kde from the package cd
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Jose

[mordred]

Not sure but I think your syntax is in fault.
Try:

export PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom/All/*"

anyway it works for me...

Hope it helps
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Al Pacino

[menciaj]

I followed your directions, but I could not compile kde from CD, so what I did was the following:

#mkdir /usr/portage/packages
#cp -a /mnt/cdrom/* /usr/portage/packages/

#export PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
(Normally portage expects packages to be in that folder)
#emerge --usepkg /usr/portage/packages/All/kde-3.2.0.tbz2

I was able to compile, and did the proper changes in make.conf and rc.conf according to the handbook. Finally i did

#rc-update add xdm default
#kdm

I reboot the computer, but and i did not see kde. What is wrong?

I noticed that kde shows as [ok] during booting. However, when i tried to reboot after log in, it shows that kde can not be stop "error"

Do i have to compile Xfree 86 or it was compiled when i compiled kde?

Another question when i reboot the computer, i did not see what is on the screen. I hardly can read something about maintance and coul not scan the disk. I hardly read provide "root password" for maintance or enter "Control-D" for normal boot, so what i do is enter my "root password" and after that i enter "exit" then i able to log in.

I will appreciate your help
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Jose

[mordred]

Dear Jose,

The compiling fo Xfree depends about your USE variable params which you most likely specified before compiling your kernel (or running genkernel).
You should have a look at your present params as they define the compilation options of all the software on your system which include of course Xfree and kde.
My config goes like this:
USE="X qt kde -gtk -gnome cdr dvd scanner -alsa"
If you can log in a graphical env, that means that X should be ok.
For your problems during boot, I experienced similar problems.
Your fstab file, a small mistake in mine led to that error.
I had read the handbook to fast and had mistaken it writting for example:

/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
instead of:

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2

(shame on me).
Changing this solved the problem.

For kde, could you tell me more?

Does kdm appear upon boot or do you have to launch kdm (or startx or startkde)?
What are the error messages you get?
Could you run emerge search kde to see what's installed and then check the dependencies.
By the way, what were the erro msges you got when previously trying to emerge kde?
Did they refer to missing packages such as openmotif etc..?

Regards
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Al Pacino

[menciaj]

I do not know why i could not compile from CD. I was getting the error message "Chunck ..." as i told you in the previous post.

Thanks for you helping me to do the following change:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto, noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 ....
/dev/hda3 ...

Now when i do startx, i am getting the following errors
(EE) unable to locate/open config file
(EE) Error from x86handleconfigfile
Fatal Server error:
no screen found

I look to the /usr/X11R86/xf86config file, and it is empty

I printed the pages from the IBM website about XFree86, but it is no much help.

Because XFree86 is not running when i did startkde, i was getting the error message "X server do not star" i believed it was something like that.
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[mordred]

Well,...

Time for more coffee

Ok, it seems you'll have to run XF86Config again.... but this is weird, how is it possible that you could graphicaly login previously with that file being empty... really weird.

I'll have a look for some doc on the forum and on the web at large to see if I can find something.
Just tell me what happens once you've run XF86config again...
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Al Pacino

[chobo123]

I ran into the same problem today as well. The thing that caused my error had to do with the Xfree86 config file. In the file my "identifier" under the device section was "Nvidia Geforce 2" while in another section it was "device0", so all I did was change the section that contained "device0" to the identifier I was using for my graphic card.

[mordred]

Depending on where in the xf86config file, it is fairly normal to have two different identifiers.
First you should have the standard VGA device, then you have the xf86config configured device.
That the identifiers in those sections are different is normal.
The last mention of ther card you have is in the screen section and this identifier MUST be the same as for the xf86config configured device.
You are apparently using a geforce 2 card so your config should be nearly the same as mine.
If you have emerged and configured the NVIDIA drivers, you could use the same config as mine in the previously mentionned sections.

Extract from my config:


# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

# Chipset "generic"

# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.

Driver "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.

# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"

# VideoRam 256

# Clocks 25.2 28.3

EndSection

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"
Driver "nvidia"
#VideoRam 64000 (your vga memory size here)
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce"
Monitor "dell" (obviously, replace by your screen identifier)
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

I hope this helps...
This distro is really cool ONCE it's configured but it's really painfull to get to that point...I guess we are all a bit masochist over here (sigh)
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Al Pacino

[menciaj]

I never log in to the graphical. I will try to compile Xfree86 and I will use you configuration file as example.
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Jose

[menciaj]

I am getting "Screen no found" when i do startx. What can be the problem?
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Jose

[menciaj]

Please can someone help to fix the problem when i run startx. I get "screen no found error".
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Jose

[mordred]

Can you edit your xf86config file on the forum?
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Al Pacino

[menciaj]

Kde is working.

I should pay more attention. My problems was that after i ran "XFree86 -configure" it created a default file in homedir (/root) , and after doing some editing to this file then i copied this file to /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config. then when i did "startx", i was expecting the xserver to ran. That is why i was getting the error "Screen no found". Xserver was looking for the file and the file was not in the right place. However, when I moved "/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config" to "/etc/X11/XF86Config" , kde works. Thanks for your help. I will now Deal with the sound. I have a Dell Gxa Pentium II 300 Mhz.
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[menciaj]

The sound card is an inboard sound card that came with the Dell Gxa
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