anyone have any ideas?

[Mr.Hillbilly]

I installed Gentoo on a old Gateway P5-200 chaise It is a screaming 200 mhz processor with an unbeatable 64 meg of ram and until recently a 10 gig hard drive. Now it is up to 30 gig. :) Although it runs the Gentoo system well using the command line I decided to install the KDE GUI interface on it. I figured it would take a week to load the program but it surprised me and only took 5 days. Here is the problem I am having, It does not want to install and run KDE. I have been asking nicely and it keeps saying, NO. When I started the process the command I used was "time emerge kde-meta". So everything downloaded to the computer. Is there a down and dirty way to make this program run, that I have missed. I think that I may have missed a flag to the pentinum-mmx processor but I am not sure. where should I look for the problem. Just for fun this is the second oldest system on my network. The oldest is a 486/66 with a 10 gig drive stuffed in it, but it still runs and transfers files so it has not been retired yet. The 386 with a whopping 8 meg of ram and the 512M hard drive has been retired in 2007. I saved the hard drive running Windows 3.1 I'll probably never use it again but it is fun to have just for the sake of having it. :)

Mr.Hillbilly

[David Scaife]

Perhaps try following the Gentoo KDE documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml. Otherwise, do you have the error that portage gives you (i.e. something more specific than "no") when you run `emerge kde-meta`? That may help determine what the actual problem is.