Hi Everyone,
Now that I have a relatively stable environment, I just wanted to write an update of how things went, and some issues that I ran into while installing my desktop environment.
No Sound
Not that I was expecting anything different from LFS, but I had no sound upon booting into KDE. I found this quite strange, as alsamixer was showing my sound card fine. One thing I can tell you, is that alsaconf is a filthy liar. My sound is now working, and it still says it can’t find my card. I’m not sure how I got it working, but here are a few tips.
- Make sure your sound is un-muted in alsamixer.
- Check your kernel to make sure that either support is compiled in for your card, or module support is selected.
- If you selected module supprt, make sure the modules are loaded. For me, this was snd-hda-intel.
Firefox and Adobe Flash
I’m not going to go into too many details about Firefox, as Jake covered this in his post here, but I’d like to note that installing Flash into Firefox was quite easy. All I had to do was download the .tar.gz from Adobe, and do the following:
tar -xvf flash.tar.gz (or whatever the .tar.gz is called)cd flashcp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins (make sure plugins is created if it does not exist.)
KDE Crash On Logout
The first time I tried to logout of KDE, I noticed that it crashed. After doing some investigations, I found a solution here. You want to edit your $KDE4_PREFIX/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to reflect the following:
[X-:*-Core] …
TerminateServer=true
What’s Next?
I’m actually not sure what I’m going to do next. I suppose I should get VLC running on the system, but that shouldn’t be too difficult. I now have a working web browser, flash, and sound, which should be fine until I can get other things working.
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