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

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.