[gentoo-user] Advice request on Gentoo+kde+nvidia using GRP
Hi, I'm pulling my hair out. I've been at it all f***ing day! Reinstalled gentoo several times today. My problem is with gentoo+kde+nvidia. This is the 3rd major attempt at installing gentoo (1st time was back in the 1.4_rc2 days with my laptop with VIA samuel CPU, everything was compiled for i686 and wouldn't boot; 2nd time was in a vmware virtual client running on W2k; 3rd time is today). I have previous experience with Linux since '95 - Slackware - and lately with SuSE. Current situation: I have gentoo running gentoo-sources kernel working fine. Installed X and nvidia glx+kernel and tried startx: worked fine. Did an emerge -k kde (installed from CD2), worked fine. Then tried to run kdm and it doesn't give me the login screen; the nvidia splash screen flashes a few times and I return to the # prompt. What am I doing wrong? Any advice before I pop the SuSE DVD back in is appreciated. Cheers! Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice request on Gentoo+kde+nvidia using GRP
On Sunday 12 October 2003 02:09 pm, Chris Carter wrote: Hi, I'm pulling my hair out. I've been at it all f***ing day! Reinstalled gentoo several times today. My problem is with gentoo+kde+nvidia. This is the 3rd major attempt at installing gentoo (1st time was back in the 1.4_rc2 days with my laptop with VIA samuel CPU, everything was compiled for i686 and wouldn't boot; 2nd time was in a vmware virtual client running on W2k; 3rd time is today). I have previous experience with Linux since '95 - Slackware - and lately with SuSE. Current situation: I have gentoo running gentoo-sources kernel working fine. Installed X and nvidia glx+kernel and tried startx: worked fine. Did an emerge -k kde (installed from CD2), worked fine. Then tried to run kdm and it doesn't give me the login screen; the nvidia splash screen flashes a few times and I return to the # prompt. What am I doing wrong? Any advice before I pop the SuSE DVD back in is appreciated. Cheers! Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The first thing to do is look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Either cat the wole thing or do: cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep (EE) The latter will just print out the errors to the screen. This should give you enough info to fix it. If not, post that output back here. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Advice request on Gentoo+kde+nvidia using GRP
The first thing to do is look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Either cat the wole thing or do: cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep (EE) The latter will just print out the errors to the screen. This should give you enough info to fix it. If not, post that output back here. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free Great idea! I had forgotten all about the logs. It all boiled down to (not) managing 24bit colours. Although the card supports 24 bit colours and startx couldn't care less, kde seemed to have trouble with it. I'm a happy puppy. Cheers! Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
