Fresh Install, now for modular X and KDE 3.5.1

Albino · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 20

I've just finished a fresh install of gentoo on my laptop. Now I want to install xorg, but I've decided to go modular. I'd like some help in explaining exactly what to do, I've read the migrating to modular X doc, but I'm still a little confused. The other complication is that I'm using an ATI radeon xpress 200M, which I've never really got to work properly with ati drivers before. If someone could tell me which steps to do in which order that would be great.

The next thing is to install KDE, I want to try 3.5.1, I have attempted this before but when unmasking all the packages I reached a dead end. Is there a single command to unmask all of KDE 3.5.1 and its dependencies.

I know I'm asking quite a bit, but I would quite like to get most of this done before I go to germany for a month on monday.

rsa4046 · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject:

Will leave the modular X stuff to the X gurus

, but I've found a quick way to get kde 3.51 going is with a simple bash script, such as

scmckenzie · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject:

Hi. I'm running ATI radeon xpress 200M, Modular X and KDE 3.5.1. Everything is running smoothly (so far). As far as the ATI drivers, I was having some trouble until I emerged the emul-linux-x86 stuff. If you're not running amd64 then don't worry about that.

In the kernel I was pretty conservative. I turned off IOMMU support (again I think that's an amd64 thing). I also disabled frame buffer support. I did enable /dev/agpgart and AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support, it sounded like a good idea and ignored the DRM.

So now the ATI driver gives me this:

Albino · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 20

I went for a monolithic nstall of X, mainly due to impatience to get the system up and running. I did unmask KDE 3.5.1 successfully and I'm using it now. I will look more into using ati drivers and setting it up without haaving to rely on vesa. If anyone else has experiencce with similar cards the more info I get the better, I'm still pretty confused with all the Xorg stuff, there are so many options and different drivers.

Also on the ACCEPT KEYWORDS, I would not go this way as I heaard it pulls in all sorts of dev stuff that you shouldn't really put on your system.

Thanks so far for the help.

thasheep · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:20 am Post subject:

Too late now I suppose but I'd definately recomend modular X. I've had no trouble with it (been running it for a couple of months at least and was using it with kde 3.5.1 until I changed to gnome). It's considerably faster to build too because you only build what you need (hence the modularity). Unmasking is simply a matter of copying the relevant section (the bit that starts with '# Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2005)
# Modularized X, upstream release candidates' and goes until x11-themes-xcursor-themes) from /usr/portage/profile/package.mask to /etc/portage/package.unmask. I just noticed a line about an ATI driver in package.mask a few lines below the x11 stuff so maybe you should copy that over too. In /etc/make.conf, you should then add a line like