[gentoo-dev] KDE as a normal user - how?

[gentoo-dev] KDE as a normal user - how?

[Viktor Lakics]

Dear All,

First I would like to congratulate for the distro...I got it up and running
this weekend. Very nice, indeed.

I would appreciate your help as to how I can setup a GUI for a normal user. (I
have X4.1 and KDE up and running for root)

I created a normal user with useradd, but no files got added to the home
directory...Therefore when I log in to X, no window manager comes up.

What files do I have to copy to my home dir, and what changes do I have to
make in them in order to be able to start kde as a normal user?

I appreciate your help in advance.

Thanks:  Viktor

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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE as a normal user - how?

[Collins Richey]

On 9 Jul 2001 10:13:55 BST Viktor Lakics <lakicsv@usa.net> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> First I would like to congratulate for the distro...I got it up and
> running
> this weekend. Very nice, indeed.
> 
> I would appreciate your help as to how I can setup a GUI for a normal
> user. (I
> have X4.1 and KDE up and running for root)
> 
> I created a normal user with useradd, but no files got added to the home
> directory...Therefore when I log in to X, no window manager comes up.
> 
> What files do I have to copy to my home dir, and what changes do I have
> to
> make in them in order to be able to start kde as a normal user?
> 
> I appreciate your help in advance.
> 

Have your read the new desktop instructions of the www.gentoo.org home
page?

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Gentoo_rc5 XFCE

[gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000]

Hello

I attempted to install gentoo on my system last night and I hit a snag. I
used the minimal build ISO, and everything went well right up until I ran
the command 'emerge rsync' after chrooting over to the build installation.

The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a
while emerge finally quit with the message 'cvs.gentoo.org not found'. So,
I rebooted and went through the install process again, but this time after
I had set up the networking I tried pinging a few machines, which worked,
but when I pinged cvs.gentoo.org I got the IP address of my
firewall/gateway (192.168.1.1).

Could anyone give me a clue to what I'm doing wrong? To my knowledge I
have followed the exact installation instructions, and there shouldn't be
any problems with my hardware setup since it works fine with Slackware and
kernel 2.4.2. The ethernet card uses the epic100 module. 

Any help at all would be appriciated.

-- wes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:17:32PM -0400, Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000 wrote:

> The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
> message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a

This sounds like a kernel error, which means that the kernel NIC driver is
having problems.  Post what specific kind of NIC you have, and maybe someone
can help.  Maybe the epic100 module in 2.4.4-ac9 is broken or needs a patch
for your particular NIC.

> Could anyone give me a clue to what I'm doing wrong? To my knowledge I
> have followed the exact installation instructions, and there shouldn't be
> any problems with my hardware setup since it works fine with Slackware and
> kernel 2.4.2. The ethernet card uses the epic100 module. 

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Daniel Robbins wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:17:32PM -0400, Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000 wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
> > message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a
> 
> This sounds like a kernel error, which means that the kernel NIC driver is
> having problems.  Post what specific kind of NIC you have, and maybe someone
> can help.  Maybe the epic100 module in 2.4.4-ac9 is broken or needs a patch
> for your particular NIC.
> 

I fixed the problem that I had with my /etc/hosts and re-ran
emerge. It connected with the server, but cointinued to have problems with
my network card.  It's listed as an SMSC EPIC/100 83c170 when I boot up my
current disto ( kernel 2.4.5 ).

The message I get is this:

eth0: Too much work at interupt, IntrStatus = 0x00250004          (only
printed once)

eth0: Too much work at interupt, IntrStatus = 0x00050004          (printed
many times)

I've got a Digital card that uses the 'tulip' driver that is laying around
here so I'll try it out and see how it goes.

-- Wes