I figured out the xdm/gdm problems. Forgot to un-comment the lines.
Yeah, the old Compaq lappy is my test mule. I have a new Sony
ultra-portable that serves as my main travel companion. WinXP is
staying on that until the Centrino drivers are more mature.
I will check those other things in regards to my slow build time. I
just thought it was a 500MHz proc and 96MB RAM.
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:06, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Gentoo is learning experiance. I would actually attempt to repair the
> system you have, rather than restart as otherwise, you are likely to
> repeat the very same mistakes. I have found that applying redhat-ism's
> to gentoo can cause some severe problems as there some fundamental
> differences.
>
> Excessive build time: check out ccache and distcc (both of which will
> run on redhat, and chroot builds on the redhat system.
>
> xdm/gdm: sounds like rc.conf is misconfigured, or you are trying to
> start xdm/gdm manually, and not via the proper scripts?
>
>
> BillK
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:55, Joseph Eaton wrote:
> > After TWO WEEKS!!! of emerging and such, I can finally log into a
> > graphical user interface (Genome) on my Gentoo laptop.
> >
> > I am typing this on my Main desktop running RH9. I am a sort of Newbie
> > that converted a while back. RH is so easy to install (took 45 minutes)
> > and use.
> >
> > Gentoo, on the other hand, has been compiling code for 14 days straight
> > on a K6-2 500 laptop.
> >
> > I couldn't get KDE to emerge properly. Gnome took about 20 or so
> > tries. It would fail on certain packages. I just retyped the command
> > and prayed. Most of the time that worked. The error messages were
> > always cryptic and google is an old friend.
> >
> > I couldn't get xscreensave to emerge. I said screw it and moved on. I
> > just wanted to to see a login screen.
> >
> > Well, eventhough I set it up to run GDM as the login manager, xdm still
> > runs. I just log in twice.
> >
> > I think I will wipe the system and start over again. I started from
> > stage 1. Next time will be stage 3.
> >
> > I don't see putting Gentoo on my main system just yet. RH9 is so
> > convenient with RPMs and now APT-GET. Maybe when I lose the n00b
> > status, I will "upgrade" to Gentoo.
> >
> > -Joseph
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