Bug 29001 – Section 25. "Using GRP" should be more descriptive i.e. starting/testing X and KDE

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Jon Strabala 2003-09-17 13:00:06 UTC]

I followed the gentoo-x86-install.xml, it was very good document 
and got me up and running in about 1 hour.  It was great in all 
areas except for Section 25. "Using GRP" specifically setting up
a window system/manager.  I wasted about three hours over the 
course of two days when a few more instructions whould have got 
me running without a hitch in the same evening.  Or at a minimum 
some URLs to do the same.

emerge -k xfree 

### you should put in a small section on how to test the X server !
### I am a Solaris user doing a first time Linux build. The method
### for a) generating an /etc/XF86config required research and the
### method for testign the X server required research.

emerge -k kde

### This worked fine, but once again no information on how to a)
### test and/or install - looking at the forums this became clear
### A quick edit of the /etc/rc.config script and runnging the
### 'rc-update add xdm default' command.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow install and ponder what to do in Secton 25.

[Comment 1 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2003-09-17 15:22:58 UTC]

In the installation guide, it says that
__To install these packages, you will need to reboot into your new Gentoo System first (covered in the "installation complete" section near the end of this document)__
then.. we scroll down a little to Chap: 26 Installation Completed!
at the very bottom of the paragraph, there's a link for Desktop configuration guide, the link will guide you throgh the XFree86 configuration.

[Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-18 00:33:24 UTC]

The installation guide doesn't have the installation and configuration of xfree as a goal. This is more something for the desktop guide. The desktop guide should be made GRP-away though...

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 16:08:29 UTC]

Marking this one as WONTFIX as we will not include XFree configuration information
to the installation guide.