KDE emerges funny, and startx won't work. [SOLVED]

[Darkmeerkat]

I'm following the The KDE Configuration HOWTO, and when I emerged KDE, it started installing things for a few days...then, when I checked on it, it started looping the letter 'y', and the only way to stop it was to use Ctr-C. I used 'emerge kde' again, and it emerged one package and finished. I then used

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echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc

and typed 'startx', which gave me this:

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X Window System Version 6.8.0
Release Date: 8 September 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.26-gentoo-r14 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux meerkat 2.4.26-gentoo-r14 #1 Sun Jan 2 05:58:05 MST 2005 i686
Build Date: 23 January 2005
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 26 21:15:05 2005
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
Using vt 7
xf86AutoConfig: Primary PCI is 1:0:0
Running "/usr/X11R6/bin/getconfig -X 60800000 -I /etc/X11,/usr/X11R6/etc/X11,/usr/lib/modules,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig -v 0x121a -d 0x0005 -r 0x01 -s 0x121a -b 0x003a -c 0x0300"
getconfig.pl: Version 1.0.
getconfig.pl: Xorg Version: 6.8.0.0.
getconfig.pl: 23 built-in rules.
getconfig.pl: rules file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg' has version 1.0.
getconfig.pl: 1 rule added from file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg'.
getconfig.pl: Evaluated 24 rules with 0 errors.
getconfig.pl: Weight of result is 500.
New driver is "tdfx"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (53 lines)

Fatal server error:
Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs        for all framebuffer devices


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
         at http://wiki.X.Org
 for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Any idea what went wrong?

[Lews_Therin]

Have you created /etc/X11/xorg.conf? If not, run X -config (or generate it manually with xorgconfig).

If you want KDE to start automatically at boot:

Edit /etc/rc.conf. Scroll down to the bottom and change the values to what's needed for KDE. Then:

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rc-update add xdm default
/etc/init.d/xdm start

That adds xdm (really kdm after the changes to rc.conf) to the default runlevel, and then starts kdm.

[Darkmeerkat]

When I type X -config, I get the following:

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Fatal Server Error.
Unrecognized option: -config

A list of X Commands is also above this, one of them was '-configure'. Should I use that one instead? It's description is "Probe for devices, write a xorg.conf". I'm pretty sure it's the one I want, but being as new as I am to this, I don't want to mess everything up.

[Darkmeerkat]

I found the Gentoo Xorg gude, and it told me to use -configure. I must be getting too paranoid.
Everything seems to be working now, my only problem is that depite the fact I have my resoloution set at 800x600, some of the fonts stay very small. Thanks for your help!

[brettlpb]

You can change font sizes in the KDE Control Panel.

[Darkmeerkat]

Thanks, now everything's readable.

[Maedhros]

Please see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-291444.html

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