[gentoo-user] xorg configuration

[gentoo-user] xorg configuration

[Thufir]

Trying to configure X installing and then emerging xorg.  Could I just
copy the xorg.conf file from the live cd over to the hdd?

Here's where I'm at now:

http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript1.txt

http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript2.txt



I'll reboot and try copying some stuff around.  Also, "emerge gnome"
will give me a basic gnome?


-Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg configuration

[Timo Josten]

gnome-base/gnome-light
is a basic gnome meta package.

You can use "xorgconfig" after emerging xorg-x11 to configure your x-server or 
you can try to use your existing xorg.conf.

Hope i could help you.


On Wednesday 11 July 2007 12:44, Thufir wrote:
> Trying to configure X installing and then emerging xorg.  Could I just
> copy the xorg.conf file from the live cd over to the hdd?
>
> Here's where I'm at now:
>
> http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript1.txt
>
> http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript2.txt
>
>
>
> I'll reboot and try copying some stuff around.  Also, "emerge gnome"
> will give me a basic gnome?
>
>
> -Thufir

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg configuration

[Xav']

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Thufir a écrit :
> Trying to configure X installing and then emerging xorg.  Could I just
> copy the xorg.conf file from the live cd over to the hdd?
> 
> Here's where I'm at now:
> 
> http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript1.txt
> 
> http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript2.txt
As I can see in the files you submit, you configure X with the wrong option...
Try to configure it first with X -configure (with ONE dash befor the configure)

This will implies X to detect your hardware and to generate a first xorg.conf
with some basic options in the current directory as xorg.conf.new.

After that you have to start X with X -config [path to xorg.conf.new] and see if
it works fine (you have to see a grid and t obe able to move your mouse).

If all works fine, you can copy the xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then
startx.
> 
> 
> I'll reboot and try copying some stuff around.  Also, "emerge gnome"
> will give me a basic gnome?
This will emerge a full gnome install, but I don't know about gnome install,
maybe you can take a look at [1].
> 
> 
> -Thufir

Regards,
Xavier Parizet

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg configuration

[Dan Farrell]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:00:41 +0200
"Xav'" <blackhawk@linuxant.fr> wrote:

> > I'll reboot and try copying some stuff around.  Also, "emerge gnome"
> > will give me a basic gnome?  
Yeah, pretty much.  I don't use gnome but helped my roommate install
gnome on gentoo without reading that guide.  I think emerge bombed once
or twice and I had to fix things, but it wasn't super difficult.

> Try to configure it first with X -configure 
That's the way I do it too, and will at least set up your display
hardware properly -- or should, it always does that part fine for me.
You might have to fix the mouse device though; it should
be /dev/input/mice most likely, not /dev/mouse as Xorg used to (still
does?) put in.  

You may also have to tweak to get desired resolution/refresh.  
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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Thufir]

Ok, I'll boot back into gentoo and try "X-configure".

(I have to use the live cd to browse the web, etc, right now.)

Here's some emerge oddities I've run into:

<http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gnome.txt>


can't seem to emerge gnome, but the bigger issue appears to be
configuration of x windows.


thanks,

Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Dale]

Thufir wrote:
> Ok, I'll boot back into gentoo and try "X-configure".
>
> (I have to use the live cd to browse the web, etc, right now.)
>
> Here's some emerge oddities I've run into:
>
> <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gnome.txt>
>
>
> can't seem to emerge gnome, but the bigger issue appears to be
> configuration of x windows.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir

It may be a typo on your end but don't forget the space between X and
-configure.  Just wanted to make sure.

Dale

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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Xavier]

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Thufir wrote :
> Ok, I'll boot back into gentoo and try "X-configure".
> 
> (I have to use the live cd to browse the web, etc, right now.)
> 
> Here's some emerge oddities I've run into:
> 
> <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gnome.txt>
> 
> 
> can't seem to emerge gnome, but the bigger issue appears to be
Emerge gnome fails because you don't have a symbolic link from /usr/src/linux to
the current kernel source tree in your /usr/src directory, so create it and be
sure you have configured your kernel.
And try to read a few higher the errors messages that are printed by emerge...
because it's written in the log you provide !
If you need to reconfigure your kernel , please follow the gentoo kernel
configuration guide [1] in the Gentoo handbook.
> configuration of x windows.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir

Regards,
Xavier Parizet

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Thufir]

On 7/11/07, Xavier <blackhawk@linuxant.fr> wrote:
[...]
> Emerge gnome fails because you don't have a symbolic link from /usr/src/linux to
> the current kernel source tree in your /usr/src directory, so create it and be
> sure you have configured your kernel.
[...]


localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # cd /usr/src/linux
localhost linux #
localhost linux # make menuconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
#
# using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
#
arch/i386/defconfig:1122:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol
USB_MULTITHREAD_PROBE
#
# configuration written to .config
#


*** End of Linux kernel configuration.
*** Execute 'make' to build the kernel or try 'make help'.

localhost linux #
localhost linux #

do I need to make the kernel?  I'm now able to "emerge world --deep" at least :)


thanks,

Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Dan Farrell]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:08:00 +0000
Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's some emerge oddities I've run into:
> 
> <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gnome.txt>

Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd
characters?  
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Billy Wayne McCann]

Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:08:00 +0000
> Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Here's some emerge oddities I've run into:
>>
>> <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gnome.txt>
> 
> Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd
> characters?  

I see many characters which appear to be little boxes with zeros and 
ones in them.  Is that what you're referring to?  If so, then no. You're 
not the only one seeing them; I'm seeing them as well, congregated at 
the very top and bottom of the doc.


Billy
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello Dan Farrell,

> > <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gnome.txt>  
> 
> Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd
> characters?  

Those are console control characters, emerge should be run with
"--color n --nospinner" when capturing its output, although emerge
normally disables them itself when it can tell the output is not to a
terminal.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

[Thufir]

On 7/12/07, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello Dan Farrell,
>
> > > <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gnome.txt>
> >
> > Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd
> > characters?
>
> Those are console control characters, emerge should be run with
> "--color n --nospinner" when capturing its output, although emerge
> normally disables them itself when it can tell the output is not to a
> terminal.
[...]

Pardon about that.


-Thufir
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