On 4/4/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings; > > 3 or 4 questions actually. New install, whatdidjaexpect? :) > > After getting a boot to work on FC5, I switched the inittab to 3 for my > next bootup, (and no one has told me what to change to make it use KDE > yet when I type startx from a runlevel 3 login, and I have asked here > twice already) but while I was there I tried to setup my printer which > works flawlessly here using FC2 but with tarball builds of cups, kde, > gimp, sane, gutenprint, (yadda) replacing the rpm packages. > > Is it as simple as a 'yum install switchdesk'? > > I did see it install foomatic, but don't recall seeing either gimp-print > or gutenprint go by. But seeing as how it did install foomatic, I > figured that when I sent a browser to localhost:631, I'd have my choice > of hundreds of drivers in all languages for my printer. > > Imagine my surprise when the espon menu showed me only about 10 > potential drivers, none of which seem to be capable of driving my C82. > I did try one, and sent a test page, but stopped it 30 minutes later > (this in 360x360 dpi mode mind you, which should have been a 10 second > job) when the printer, after laboring mightily all this time, had only > manage to feed about 1.5" of paper. On ejecting the page, the ink was > good and black, but had not soaked thru the paper as I would have > expected. It was also in a very coarse dpi on the paper, and the top > of the cups test pages color wheel was black only. > > So at this point I'm assuming something isn't configured right by the > foomatic install else I'd have had my choice of drivers well covered. > > So what sort of a magic twanger do I need to find? > > Comment: On this FC2 box, I removed foomatic years ago, reconfigured and > rebuilt cups to use the gimp-print drivers, and brought my C82's output > up to the equivalent of that of a chemical darkroom, something I also > have no little experience with over the last 60 years. Do I have to > similarly "break" the FC5 install by doing it again just to make it > work, or is this a known issue with a fix readily available? > > Also, I just now tried to boot my 2.6.16.1 kernel, running right now, > but when it gets to the initial console it reports it cannot open it > and hangs till you give it the vulcan nerve pinch & reboot. Hints on > that would be appreciated. > > And, how do I fix X so that when I type startx, kde comes up? I've had > no luck getting gnomes evolution to fetch mail, the correct password > isn't correct. > > -- > Cheers, Gene [snip] Gene, the following worked for me on FC4. Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop. Add or modify line to read DESKTOP="KDE" This will cause all users to default to KDE. If you want to use KDE's displaymanager append this line: DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
