Gentoo installation (4)-install X Desktop Environment, gentoo

Gentoo installation (4)-install X Desktop Environment, gentoo
Install X Desktop Environment: Install Xorg:

• Detect video card information:

dmesg | grep videolspci  | grep -i VGA

• Configure the INPUT_DEVICE and VIDEO_CARDS variables:

Before installing Xorg, you need to set two important variables in the/etc/portage/make. conf file.

(For mouse, keyboard, and Synaptics touchpad support) INPUT_DEVICE = "evdev synaptics" (For nVidia graphics cards) VIDEO_CARDS = "nvidia" (or, For ATI Radeon graphics cards) VIDEO_CARDS = "radeon" (vmwarevm) VIDEO_CARDS = "vmware" (VirtualBox VM) VIDEO_CARDS = "virtualbox"

• Install xorg-server"

emerge -pv xorg-drivers

First of all, make sure udev is in your USE flags:

echo "x11-base/xorg-server udev" >> /etc/portage/package.use

Note: The keyboard and mouse are replaced with evdev in the latest version of Xorg (later than 1.5) to ensure that the udev flag is enabled when xorg-server is installed.

Next, install Xorg:

emerge -av xorg-server

• Update environment variables:

env-update source /etc/profile

• Use startx:

After twm and xterm are installed, run startx to test whether X is normal.
After the test is normal, you can delete twm and xterm.

emerge -v twm xtermstartx

Install the desktop environment:

• Lxde:
• Awesome: