Cannot start a desktop environment

[Johnny Who]

I installed a sabayon 8 CDX on a laptop without pae, then performed an upgrade and installed mate desktop environment. LXDM wouldn` t start, so I installed lightdm, but it failed, too. Both gave a black screen instead of a login screen, and i was able to escape it through alt+f1. Then I installed slim, and it works, bu it fails to load any graphical environment. Every option results in a black screen, with an x-shaped mouse pointer in the middle, which does no react to my touchpad. What should I do to get Mate up nad running with any display manager?

[Johnny Who]

The problem wouldn `t get solved, so I reinstalled, but when I tried to run

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sudo equo install entropy

it fetched some files, but when it sttarted installing, it outputted some error messages after installing every package. I exited with ctrl+c, but sudo, equo and emerge were rendered unusable. It complained about some glibc modules. I am reinstaling right now.

[micia]

That's because most likely the Core CDX version of Sabayon doesn't come with any desktop included, how did you install MATE?

[wolfden]

not an installer issue so moving to correct forum

You gonna have to look at the log files to see why stuff fails