Little bits and pieces...

[Rede]

Ok I have just installed gentoo and now need a little bit of help with a few things.

Firstly I would like to install kde and make it load when I start up.

[NathanZachary]

Okay, if you have finished the installation, you would want to do the following:

1. Install Xorg
2. Install your graphics drivers
3. Install KDE based on your needs

Here are the respective instructions for each of those things:

1. Xorg --> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
2. Graphics drivers --> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml (nVidia) OR http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml (ATi) (sometimes the drivers are emerged automatically when emerging Xorg, provided you have the "VIDEO_CARD=" variable set in /etc/make.conf)
3. KDE --> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml

I personally just emerge kde-base/startkde , and then if I wanted to have it start automatically, I would emerge kdm and follow those instructions in the handbook. If you run into any problems, or have any questions along the way, please just post back.
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[Rede]

Alright I just emerged xorg-x11, I got this though:

-------------ACCESS VIOLATIOB SUMMARY----------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log.... (Don't think this is that important is it?)

Contents of log file are:

open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r3/null.gcda
open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r3/null.gcda
open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r3/null.gcda
open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r3/null.gcda
open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r3/null.gcda

Should I continue on or has this stopped my xorg-x11 emerge?

[NathanZachary]

If it brought you back to the prompt, and didn't produce any overt error messages, you should be fine. However, to make sure, continue with the guide to which I linked above. You will need to configure the X server, and test it to make sure that it works nicely. After you get all the configuration done, and you type startx to test the X server, it will either start or return one or more errors. Give it a go, and post back with the results.

Those messages don't seem to be anything important.
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[Rede]

When I type 'Xorg -configure' it produces a link to a log file which is quite large then says missing drivers underneath.

If I try to use the semi-auto 'xorgconfig' command it runs until 'cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf' at which it says /root/xorg.conf.new does not exist...

Any thoughts?

[NathanZachary]

First of all, what type of graphics card are you using? Can you please post the contents of /etc/make.conf? Also, please type out the exact error messages that you receive when you do Xorg -configure. These three things will help us narrow down the problem. As this thread is post-installation, I'm going to ask a moderator to move it into "Desktop Environments."
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[Maedhros]

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
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[hsurfer]

i recently tried to upgrade my kernel:
from: linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 to linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r3
with genkernel and after reboot execute
module-rebuild rebuild

[tarpman]

You both need to update sys-apps/sandbox - see bug 135745 for more info.

kalos, sandbox errors like the ones he has gotten always halt a build - so whichever emerge produced them and any following it certainly didn't complete successfully.
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