11:10 AM

Trundling right along with getting Fedora Core 2 working on Al-Rassan, my IBM Thinkpad i1400. I switched over to KDE and had problems with the keys ‘sticking’ - turned out the default key delay was set to zero, so a quick visit to the control center fixed that.

Another issue is that I couldn’t find the desktop switcher tool to set KDE as the default session. Fixed that by going to /etc/sysconfig/desktop

DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

That seems to have done the trick.

I’ve been installing some of the multimedia packages described in Greg Gulick’s Fedora Core 2 Tips and Tricks. Setting up multiple repositories for up2date was easier than I thought, and reenabling mp3 support was quite easy.

APM support appears to be disabled in the 2.6 kernel. What’s up with that?