Installing X/KDE

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phyrestang · Post by **phyrestang** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:54 am

I just ran through a stage one install of Gentoo, with the 2.6.3 kernel. Everything went fine, except for a problem with networking, but that is solved now. I've reached the end of the installation guide, so I am just guessing on how to progress from here. I want to use KDE with kdm as my display manager. Am I correct in assuming that all I have to do is "emerge kde" ? And if so, afterwards, do I "rc-update add kde default"? This is my first time installing gentoo, I've used mandrake and red hat before, but obviously they set up X for me automatically. Thanks for any input.

ToddWest · Post by **ToddWest** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:01 am

If you "emerge kde" it will emerge all the KDE packages along with its dependencies, I.E. - XFree. So you wont have to worry about that. *Note - KDE and X take a LONG time to compile, just an FYI*

You wont add kde using rc-update but if you want the kdm display manager you will need to

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rc-update add xdm default

then edit your /etc/rc.conf file and change this line to kdm instead of xdm.

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DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

You will also want to make sure this line is uncommented and says

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XSESSION="KDE"

phyrestang · Post by **phyrestang** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:13 am

Thanks a lot for your help. I'm waiting on KDE to compile now, I think I'll just go take a nap

ToddWest · Post by **ToddWest** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:17 am

No Prob. Depending on your Computer speed, you may want to hibernate instead of naping.

phyrestang · Post by **phyrestang** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:24 am

I have an Athlon XP 2100 with 512Mb RAM, how long do you think it will take?

justanothergentoofanatic · Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:14 pm

My Athlon 1700 with 256MB took a bit less than 12 hours to compile KDE. Gnome only took 3 or 4 hours to compile, but oddly KDE runs faster on my machine.

furkan · Post by **furkan** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 5:51 pm

phyrestang, if you install gentoo 2004.0 and you use GRP stage3 that will take (if you write emerge -k kde)5 minutes....
for installing kde 3.2.0 with compiling that take 8 hour on my computer(2.40GHz)...but if you want to install kde 3.2.1 it take 3-4 hour .......

Convex · Post by **Convex** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:08 pm

i have been following this documentation to install x and kde. i am running VM ware, so the XF86Config was pretty hard to configure. i wanted to make sure x server would run fine first. i am on package 16 of the 72 that came with emerge kde after emerge xfree. it has been about... 30 minutes so far i think. this is with a P4 1.6 overclocked to 2.24 (not sure if VMware carries over what my CPU is running at) and 512 MB ram.

Post by **pjp** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:19 am

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

Boris27 · Post by **Boris27** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:45 am

Convex wrote:i have been following this documentation to install x and kde. i am running VM ware, so the XF86Config was pretty hard to configure. i wanted to make sure x server would run fine first. i am on package 16 of the 72 that came with emerge kde after emerge xfree. it has been about... 30 minutes so far i think. this is with a P4 1.6 overclocked to 2.24 (not sure if VMware carries over what my CPU is running at) and 512 MB ram.

XFree takes 30 minutes on my 2500+ overclocked to 3200+.

KDE takes a shitload longer, as it's written in C++, and the gnu C++ compiler is a lot slower than the C one.

phyrestang · Post by **phyrestang** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:34 am

Ok, I did emerge xfree, and ran through the xfree config prog that was provided with the ATI drivers (fglxrXFConfig)

But when I try to startx I get this error:

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(WW) fglrx: No matching Device for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

Symbol gnu_dev_makedev from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a is unresolved!

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 4.  Server aborting

Any idea what the problem could be?

KC9L · Post by **KC9L** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 6:38 am

Did you type `opengl-update ati'?