techThursday, December 29, 2005
Still Compiling
Well, I got some GUI up, but I'm still compiling some applications (Mozilla Firefox, Open Office, and mplayer). I could have had it all done yesterday, but I'm trying to get the latest versions of these things, which means that there are some broken dependencies, so I gotta sort those out and recompile some other stuff. It seems to be going smoothly now though.
I'm writing this from a simple GUI running the Konqueror web browser. I got KDE installed Though I'm not using it yet because this is my first attempt at running X and I just wanted to make sure that it works right before loading KDE. X seems to be working right, I got it running at my laptop LCD's native resolution of 1280x800 (wxga) using the open source ATI Radeon drivers. I'm using a USB mouse right now, and I should have the touchpad working on the next reboot. The mouse scroll wheel works. I got some truetype fonts installed. Everything's looking pretty good.
Time to reboot and start KDE
I'm writing this from a simple GUI running the Konqueror web browser. I got KDE installed Though I'm not using it yet because this is my first attempt at running X and I just wanted to make sure that it works right before loading KDE. X seems to be working right, I got it running at my laptop LCD's native resolution of 1280x800 (wxga) using the open source ATI Radeon drivers. I'm using a USB mouse right now, and I should have the touchpad working on the next reboot. The mouse scroll wheel works. I got some truetype fonts installed. Everything's looking pretty good.
Time to reboot and start KDE
