gui

[mactabilis]

Ok i got the all [ok] on the left when i done the reboot so thats cool ,But startx is not working so i cant get in my desktop enviroment it says command not found?Should i install the GRP pkgs.

[budman7]

Did you create a .xinitrc file in your users home directory.
su into root
nano .xinitrc

Which WM/DE are you trying to start.

If it is kde, put one line in your .xinitrc file

exec startkde

f it is not kde, let me know, I will provide more instructions.

[mactabilis]

I have to type root not su and when i was in root i did
nano .xinitrc the file is blank,The reboot after install was fine all [ok] on left
so i must of missed somthing out?

Kde or gnome would be fine.
The kde and gnome seem to be in my /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
Are they needed to be else where to fire up the desktop.

[Cabhan]

Gentoo provides some guides on getting Gnome and KDE installed:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml <-- KDE
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml <-- Gnome

[mactabilis]

Thats all good thxs,But i dont have a internet conection on the comp with gentoo, i installed with the universall cd and when i run emerge it says it cant download a pkg tar.gz http errors ect.Which you would exspect

[spencerf]

did you install X?

You have to have this before you can install a WM like gnome, kde, blackbox, fluxbox, etc.................

[budman7]

f you don't use su to get into root, but just login as root, when doing the nano .xinitrc.
you will need to do

nano /home/username/.xinitrc

Otherwise you will have roots path.

Is there a reason that you don't have an internet connection on this pc? Or i it a configuration problem.

[mactabilis]

Nice 1 on that budman7

[NetBSD/toaster]

Nice 1 on that budman7

You think a 16mb (or 90mb approx for stage3) tarball comes fully loaded with X?
You shouldn't be using Gentoo.

Logging in as root and not using 'su'?
You shouldn't be using UNIX.

Toaster out.