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peterjk
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: SOLVED: A complete new install by novice |
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I have been a user of Mandrake linux for a couple of months now, things went well  . I'm getting used to it, and was advised to install Gentoo, as their is a lot of control about what you want installed, that rang bells in my head,  , being an x WINDOWS user.
I'm running an AMD64-2GHz-1MegRam, system, with Nvidia card FX-5600.
My question is that I want to do eveything in the right order, in the first instance to get KDE up and running properly.
I have started by doing the following:
1. Installed Gentoo manually via LiveCD, kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
2. Emerge kde-meta, which is taking some time, and still waiting.
3. WHAT DO I DO NEXT...
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chevdor
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: |
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How far did you get in the installation ? What is your problem ?
Is something not working ? Can you boot up on your gentoo system ?
From what you say, it sounds like you installed everything. If so, I guess you just need to use it now 
There is a section in the doc that explains what to do after the installation, you might wanna take a look at it.
Question : Could you show me the result of your 'fdisk -l' ? I am still stuck in the installation process because of grub. My config is VERY close to yours  |
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d4rkwingduck
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crudh
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Configure X? Configure X? Install more packages?
Read any tips the installation handbook has and then go through all the howto:s for setting up 3d-acceleration and other stuff that is available on the home page and the wiki. |
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EzInKy
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: A complete new install by novice |
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| peterjk wrote: |
I'm running an AMD64-2GHz-1MegRam, system, with Nvidia card FX-5600.
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Only 1MegRam, hope you have a lot of swap space! Sorry, couldn't resist B-)
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I have started by doing the following:
1. Installed Gentoo manually via LiveCD, kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
2. Emerge kde-meta, which is taking some time, and still waiting.
3. WHAT DO I DO NEXT... |
You could bide your time reading docs with man and lynx to familiarize yourself with the system.
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peterjk
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| crudh wrote: | Configure X? Configure X? Install more packages?
Read any tips the installation handbook has and then go through all the howto:s for setting up 3d-acceleration and other stuff that is available on the home page and the wiki. |
I have run the command:
Xorg -configure
and got the following result:
Failed to load module "i810". Something to do with the MOUSE
Any ideas
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mark_alec
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In your xorg.conf, change /dev/mouse  /dev/input/mice. |
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drwook
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Or use xorgcfg first & be sure of your answers |
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Maedhros
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
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