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I posted this on the Forum before I saw the mailing list. |
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I thank you who are involved in the development of the book because it |
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is very good. |
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I am a newbie to Gentoo. I was following the steps in the book from |
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the beginning in order so that I would not miss anything. |
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I did not have any problems with the Installing Gentoo chapter and the |
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12 step sections. |
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I did not have a problem with Working with Gentoo and those 5 sections. |
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I did not have a problem with Working with Portage and those 5 sections. |
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I skipped over Gentoo Network Configuration. My network is simple and works. |
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The X Server Configuration HOWTO is wear I first had trouble. It was |
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at the end when the instructions said to start HAL. |
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I followed the instructions and the response was that HAL was not |
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installed. Up to this point there had been no instructions to install |
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HAL. This wasn't a show stopper because the fix was obvious, just |
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install HAL and then run the command again and everything should be |
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fine. It was. |
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Maybe the step to install HAL should be put in before the step to start HAL. |
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The other surprise was not so obvious. When I tried to start X, it did |
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not start but came back with a lot of text on the screen and some |
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error messages. Some of the error messages were about xterm and xclock |
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and something else missing. But there had been no instructions to |
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install those. I figured out how to install those packages. |
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Maybe the step to install those 3 missing packages should be put in |
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before trying to start X. |
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Now another problem came up. I had to go to the forum to figure out |
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what was wrong. I would not have figured that one out if I had not |
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searched the forum. The problem was a couple of variables missing. |
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VIDEO_CARDS="<card_type>" Mine is radeon, I have the X1650 with the R500 chip |
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INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" |
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There weren't any instructions in the book up to the point where I was |
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in the book that said to put those variables in the /etc/make.conf |
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file. |
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Maybe the step for the variables should be put in also before trying to start X. |
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Once I fixed the above problems X started with no problems. |
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Overall the documentation that I have read up to this point is very |
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good. I only shared this simply because the problems would not have |
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come up if the steps had been in the book. |
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Not complaining just pointing out some things that probably would make |
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things easier for the volunteers on the forum if corrections were made |
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to those parts of the book where the steps are missing. |
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Again, I thank you who are involved in the development of the book |
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because it is very good. |
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