Thanks to all who have responded,
I am going to try the Knoppix later today to see if I can get a better X config file. I suspect that the probing done to get the configuration for the monitor did not work quite right. I can probably dig some more and figure out how to get it to use a lower refresh rate or something like that to get it going if Knoppix does not happen to configure it right. More on that later.
Meanwhile, I was not surprised that X is a requirement for the Window managers. I thought I remembered it that way, but it has been 10 years since I played with X. I still cannot get Gnome to emerge properly. Does anyone have an insight into what causes the following error? I think I have included enough of the output from the emerge to find the top most error. :-)
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libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -c ./wrjpgcom.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -c ./rdjpgcom.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/rdjpgcom.o
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -c ./rdjpgcom.c -o rdjpgcom.o >/dev/null 2>&1
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -c ./wrjpgcom.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/wrjpgcom.o
libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o libjpeg.la jcapimin.lo jcapistd.lo jctrans.lo jcparam.lo jdatadst.lo jcinit
.lo jcmaster.lo jcmarker.lo jcmainct.lo jcprepct.lo jccoefct.lo jccolor.lo jcsample.lo jchuff.lo jcphuff.lo jcdctmgr.lo
jfdctfst.lo jfdctflt.lo jfdctint.lo jdapimin.lo jdapistd.lo jdtrans.lo jdatasrc.lo jdmaster.lo jdinput.lo jdmarker.lo jd
huff.lo jdphuff.lo jdmainct.lo jdcoefct.lo jdpostct.lo jddctmgr.lo jidctfst.lo jidctflt.lo jidctint.lo jidctred.lo jdsam
ple.lo jdcolor.lo jquant1.lo jquant2.lo jdmerge.lo jcomapi.lo jutils.lo jerror.lo jmemmgr.lo jmemnobs.lo \
-rpath /usr/lib -version-info 62
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -c ./wrjpgcom.c -o wrjpgcom.o >/dev/null 2>&1
libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o rdjpgcom rdjpgcom.lo
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o rdjpgcom .libs/rdjpgcom.o
libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o wrjpgcom wrjpgcom.lo
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o wrjpgcom .libs/wrjpgcom.o
g++ -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/../../../crti.o /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/
crtbeginS.o .libs/jcapimin.o .libs/jcapistd.o .libs/jctrans.o .libs/jcparam.o .libs/jdatadst.o .libs/jcinit.o .libs/jcm
aster.o .libs/jcmarker.o .libs/jcmainct.o .libs/jcprepct.o .libs/jccoefct.o .libs/jccolor.o .libs/jcsample.o .libs/jchuf
f.o .libs/jcphuff.o .libs/jcdctmgr.o .libs/jfdctfst.o .libs/jfdctflt.o .libs/jfdctint.o .libs/jdapimin.o .libs/jdapistd.
o .libs/jdtrans.o .libs/jdatasrc.o .libs/jdmaster.o .libs/jdinput.o .libs/jdmarker.o .libs/jdhuff.o .libs/jdphuff.o .lib
s/jdmainct.o .libs/jdcoefct.o .libs/jdpostct.o .libs/jddctmgr.o .libs/jidctfst.o .libs/jidctflt.o .libs/jidctint.o .libs
/jidctred.o .libs/jdsample.o .libs/jdcolor.o .libs/jquant1.o .libs/jquant2.o .libs/jdmerge.o .libs/jcomapi.o .libs/jutil
s.o .libs/jerror.o .libs/jmemmgr.o .libs/jmemnobs.o -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-
pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/../../.. -lstdc++ -lm -lc -lgcc_s /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/crtendS.o /usr/lib/gcc-lib
/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/../../../crtn.o -Wl,-soname -Wl,libjpeg.so.62 -o .libs/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/../../../crti.o: No such file or directory
g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/crtbeginS.o: No such file or directory
g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/crtendS.o: No such file or directory
g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/../../../crtn.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [libjpeg.la] Error 1
!!! ERROR: media-libs/jpeg-6b-r4 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 43, Exitcode 2
!!! make failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
clwsapp08 root #
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo
On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Dennis Taylor wrote:
I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows
on my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It
is unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install Xorg. When
... xorg is a dependency of KDE and Gnome, just a graphics server... and what
is the error are you encountering when emerging Gnome or KDE?
Gnome would not emerge without error, I tried first emerging/configuring
Xorg-X11, but it will not configure correctly for me. When I run X
-config, it produces a file with an extra horizontal synch line that is all
corrupted. When I remove it, then X -config /root/xorg.conf.new will start
and show a "dotted" background like I remember from years ago using
XFree86. The mouse works because moving it around moves the mouse pointer
(X). I can only get out of it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and that leaves my
monitor unreadable.
... this somewhat indicates that X server is somewhat (sic!) working. Did you
go through the configure procedure, keyboard mouse, monitor, graphics card,
hsync, vsync, do you have all the information needed ready, especially about
hsync, vsync supported by your display? However, the choice of the windows
manager should not affect the success of an emerge unless something else is
wrong.
Do I need the X server for Gnome and/or KDE? If so, any ideas?
.. your call, depends on whether you prefer Gnome or KDE as a desktop
environment...
My use flags are as follows:
USE="gtk gnome qt kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly"
... this is very basic and does not matter whether you will be emerging Gnome
or KDE later on, IMHO, it just creates overhead installing both, although it
is an individual choice (of course)...
I did an emerge --sync last week.
.. this doesn't matter much, either and will not take the decision away from
you about which window manager you want, and ahh, yes, there are others, too.
Follow the instructions about installing the desktop environment in the
Gentoo Desktop Guide.
Dennis Taylor
TM ;-)
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