From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKwz9-0001Wr-Uv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:12:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CADF2E075B; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f227.google.com (mail-gx0-f227.google.com [209.85.217.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE482E075B for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk27 with SMTP id 27so12578223gxk.10 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:12:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qSWT75OZjz2v9ICxy5JPC/UDbpglqIgDPrcxo8E0R90=; b=LkGtV2El1Ay6e+Xd/XG0hwLb12/T4HhF0lMRX2lNxTNz/3m0fM4jplLsqCYZs0G3nl dobHvVbCp1r6l8IWpcbUmw7iHsY9JMn2e0SpPrm3kAiFkCVTFjQPDIbZ2NqDQepb3VX/ iCakC+2gsSehAwgzZoBpp2kyU1R5Jep2dA4gs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cb4pbQcALaMjvXUPH6cvWfhwIbl1GBhf2wBu8O+A59ljYdQIPRema3LDvzE4qYg2Jg aamKNbiTNZkBI50OxI6361k2YkOfG5nysIdYDaZPWOKKl9QGufdgXYPFhSj96/VM7mAg PUvvCQAK3Z91gKG3TKe3QL/yEAfjz1nLMV5p8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.185.16 with SMTP id i16mr380368ybf.260.1246205526219; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:12:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090628140405.0b29f7a7@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <5bdc1c8b0906261533o43c3af6evf6c85f55bb8db76f@mail.gmail.com> <20090626190601.GA31758@zoidberg.hsd1.mi.comcast.net> <5bdc1c8b0906261618r61fa5907t76df3a904ccd2ba6@mail.gmail.com> <200906281401.14770.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20090628140405.0b29f7a7@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:12:06 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0906280912p55081637v68840d04f66b690e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 547e5916-1dc2-4eb3-90a0-4e16d43823b7 X-Archives-Hash: b5236cd4d47a2cf24cd3aaac7f847fe0 On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, >> which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have >> some fancy USE flags setup). > > It will also pull in a shedload of dependencies, being a meta > package,something that is not likely to appeal to the typical > Fluxbox user. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > Exactly. My use of fluxbox on this machine was to test that X is even working over S-Video. (It is.) My goal after that was to emerge MythTV again and try running that. That causes X to crash for MTRR problems so that would be today's goal. This didn't used to happen with my old kernel and the fglrx driver so probably I haven't configured the kernel correctly? With xorg-server & fluxbox emerged I only needed about 20 packages to get Myth installed so I agree that xorg-x11 pulls in a bunch of stuff I probably don't need. I would have emerged xorg-x11 if I hadn't been reading through the xorg config guide once again and seen that this was an option. I'm not sure the other stuff is big, but it's a lot of packages. - Mark