Variety of Problems, kde, emerge, dual boot with grub, resolution

**budman7** · 06-16-2005

startx is a command, this does not get put into a file, you execute it after you login.
To get startx to work, I will elaborate on my earlier post.
Login as regular user
do
su >root password
nano -w .xinitrc
add this line
exec startkde

Now you can login ro X.
If you get Error, no usable screens found, you will need to do "xorgconfig"
Put all your info in, then do startx

**rowman** · 06-16-2005

I got startx to work. I am typing using Konqueror from KDE right now. I was wondering if there was an init file or something (login.init??) that I could put startx in if I wanted to automaticially start xserver and log in through it.

I also still have not figured out how to run programs that I have installed using emerge.
Thanks for all the help

**Cabhan** · 06-16-2005

So you want to boot directly into graphical mode when you boot up?

This is fairly easy.

Firstly, we need to tell Linux that we want to use a graphical display manager. We do this by, as root:

Code:

vi /etc/rc.conf

(you can, of course, use any other text editor, like nano or (*shudder*) Emacs here)

Find the "DISPLAYMANAGER" line. Set it equal to "kdm", so:

Code:

DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

Also, be sure that you uncomment the line if it's commented.

Finally, we have to tell Linux to load the displaymanager on boot:

Code:

rc-update add xdm default

This adds the graphical login to every runlevel.

Also, as far as another user works, I HIGHLY recommend using a non-root user. The "su" command (which stands for "switch user", not "superuser") will let you switch to root if you need to. Basically, su without a user name assumes root, so the following will make you root:

Code:

su
<ENTER ROOT PASSWORD>

This lets you do administrative tasks even within a regular user.

Now then, as far as running an app that you've emerged, what sort of program are you running?

Some things, like libraries or plugins, are not run at all. But for example, if we emerge, lessay Firefox:

Code:

emerge mozilla-firefox

The command to actually run Firefox is "firefox", not "mozilla-firefox".

I hope that helps!

**budman7** · 06-16-2005

The "su" command (which stands for "switch user", not "superuser") will let you switch to root if you need to

I had always read that it was superuser.
But switchuser does make more sense.
If I want to switch from root to regular user. Or regular user to regular user,
I use the su - <username> to do it.

**rowman** · 06-16-2005

Thanks for the help with all of that so far. I am now able to start up some programs, but none that need graphics to use (i.e. games). It says 'unable to find display driver'. I assume this means I need a linux display driver for my vid card. Easy enough.

Speaking of display driver, is there any way to increase the resolution of the command line interface?

And another KDE question, can I run startx on one of my terminals (Alt-2) and still be able to access the command line interface on the others?

**budman7** · 06-16-2005

For what you want i think you need Alt + F7.
Or when in X, just open a terminal, go to the K >System>Terminal

**rowman** · 06-16-2005

Alt-F7 is correct to get to my gui from any other command line terminal, but how do I get back to alt-f1 through f6. Pressing the buttons from KDE doesnt do anything. Except alt-f4, that closes whatever is open.

**budman7** · 06-16-2005

Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6 will work

**rowman** · 06-16-2005

So it does! Thanks for all the help.

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