Doing the jump

xaviell · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

Is there anything i should know before emerging GNOME? Like should i emerge x11 before? or nvidia-glx before??

frary · Guru Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 545

Gnome ( as any other wm ) depends on xorg / xfree, so x11 will automatically be emerged before gnome.
Any wm will work without glx, but you won´t have direct rendering until you have a 3d-driver.
You can savely emerge gnome, look if it fits your needs and emerge the other stuff later...

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dswissmiss · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 498 Location: New York

Emerging any window manager or desktop environment will emerge xorg as a dependency automatically. Take a look at the gentoo docs for configuring gnome. After that, take a look at the xorg docs, and adjust anything that hasn't been done yet (such as mouse configs and such).

Edit: Gah...few secons too late

xaviell · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

Aright, thx guys.