[gentoo-user] xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo

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It just plain worked!

Emerge even identified -only- my drivers (mouse, keyboard, etc.) before I  
scanned xorg.conf.

Minor problems:

1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to remove  
an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have noted it).  
But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete it. A restart  
allowed successful completion.

2. Before starting, I renamed /etc/X11 to /etc/X11old so that any  
accumulated junk would be out of the picture, and so that the new  
xorg.conf.example file would be clean. Heh, it doesn't build a new  
xorg.conf.example file, so I copied over the old file and everything  
worked - except for the rgb file.

3. My first xmessage complained of not understanding "black". So I emerged  
rgb, edited the xorg.conf file, and repointed it.

RgbPath	"/usr/share/X11/rgb"

4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be emerged.  
Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but emerge did.

5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during  
re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand). So  
I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything worked  
except for the kde office applications.

6. kde office applications depend upon kde 3.4, which I no longer have -  
and revdep pointed this out :-) . This obviously is not an xorg issue, but  
rather an emerge issue; allowing me to unemerge 3.3 and 3.4 a month ago,  
while still having a need for their libraries if I need to recompile the  
office stuff.

But I'm "guessing" that the office "libraries", available in portage, will  
fix this. But I don't care right now, as the programs (e.g. word, spread)  
work fine without recompiling. :-)

So thank you to Gentoo the Developers - another successful plan and  
instructions on your part, that worked just fine for newbies like me!


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