Summary: | Need to emerge xterm and twm | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | Chuck Wegrzyn <chuck.wegrzyn> |
Component: | Other documents | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
Status: | VERIFIED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Chuck Wegrzyn
2010-06-06 23:36:40 UTC
You need to read the document again. It already has a section on temporarily installing xterm and twm just to check that startx works. There's also another section on using the -retro flag to make sure that something comes up on the screen. Not a bug; closing. I'm sorry but the documentation on startx comes after you say what to do and says that a black screen might show up. In fact the document says the following: "If you haven't yet installed a window manager, all you'll see is a black screen. Since this can also be a sign that something's wrong, you may want to emerge twm and xterm only to test X." In fact you don't see a black screen - X just doesn't start at all and gives a number of errors. This sounds like you MIGHT need them when you really do need them. (I've tried it on two different systems just to make sure - one using ATI and the other Nvidia). And the order in the document is all wrong - you ought to make it a requirement to install twm and xterm if you are sre going to use startx, and it should be in a section when you are talking about testing it out! Order and clarity are everything or is this another "Gentoo" - the user be damned notion? |