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Hi! I'm not a Linux newbie but am completely new to Gentoo. |
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Installed (from the official CD's) 1.4 for PPC G4 on an iMac 800Mhz 17" |
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LCD with an NVidia GeForce4 video card. Getting the system up is going |
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pretty well, but I am not able to open a desktop in KDE. |
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I did |
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emerge xfree |
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and at the end I got many lines repeating: |
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bash: line 39: 5:: command not found |
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When booting & when issuing the command startx I am seeing that line and |
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variants like: |
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/sbin/rc line 39: 5:: command not found |
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/etc/X11/chooser.sh line 39: 5:: command not found |
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Error: Can't contact kdeinit |
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I think XFree86 config is basically okay, since I did get to the point |
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where I could open an Xterm window. Since I emerged kde and set |
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DISPLAYMANAGER to kdm and XSESSION to "kde-3.1.2", when I try to start |
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kde, I again get an X window, but it just has a box advising me "Can't |
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open kdeinit". |
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I'm also getting this error message: |
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(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Unknown error 999 |
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I have searched this site; the page on rc scripts; the gentoo.org |
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tutorials on X; and the XFree86 site--but haven't found any reference to |
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the error messages I'm getting. It looks to me as if there is a critical |
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script necessary to starting the Xserver which is lacking a line. I have |
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done cat /etc/X11/chooser.sh and cat'd other referenced files |
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without figuring out what is the problem or how to correct it. |
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Is my guess correct, that a critical init script is missing a line? If |
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so, is this a known bug, and is there a patch to fix it? Is there some |
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way I can fix the file myself? |
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Please note: |
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*I have this boot kernel parameter set: append="video=ofonly" |
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*I don't do any games or complex graphics--all I need is a basic video |
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setup. |
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*I am not able to give my entire /etc/X11/XFree86-4 config, but--based |
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on what I've read--I assume the following entries may be significant: |
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Section Modules |
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Load "fbdevhw" |
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#Load "dri" |
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Section Monitor |
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Identifier "Monitor 0" |
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UseModes "Modes 0" |
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HorizSync 30-130 |
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VertRefresh 50-160 [These 2 values work in my YDL installation] |
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Section Device |
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Driver "nv" |
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Option "FlatPanel" |
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Driver "fbdev" |
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Section Screen |
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Identifier "Screen 0" |
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Monitor "Monitor 0" |
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Subsect Display: Depths for 1,4,8,15,16,24 are all set to Mode 1440x900 |
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[settings that work in YDL] |
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Section DRI |
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Mode 0666 |
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Any insights and suggestions will be much appreciated. --Harvey |
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