:confused:FC10 KDE HUGE

AcidJello · #1 12th February 2009, 08:55 PM

I recently installed FC10 using the live cd distro that comes with gnome, after doing that i installed kde with yum which went ok. I switched inittab to 3 then edited .xinitrc to do startkde since i couldnt figure out how to switch WM's after that i startx and KDE came up, window sizes and desktop looked normal sized, when i brought up the menu the whole screen was taken up by 2 letters. I clicked the terminal shortcut on the desktop which came up with gigantic fonts that basically took up the entire screen as if the resolution was 120x120 or something like that.

This is on a laptop Compaq presario r4000 amd xp 3500 64bit 1 gig of ram radeom 200m 128meg dedicated. I would really rreally appreciate help here since i hate Gnome and so far i found the whole Fedora experience beyond unaceptable. Moved to FC10 from Centos 5 .. im starting to regret it.

Thanks

AcidJello · #2 12th February 2009, 08:57 PM

ops sorry posted in the wrong place

Nokia · #3 12th February 2009, 09:07 PM

First, do

Code:

su
yum update --enablerepo=u*g
reboot

Then install ATI driver from HowTo section.

***bob*** · #4 12th February 2009, 09:11 PM

(moved to General Support)

AcidJello · #5 13th February 2009, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nokia

First, do

Code:

su
yum update --enablerepo=u*g
reboot

Then install ATI driver from HowTo section.

well i did the first part... which surprisingly finished gave me a new kernel i believe which seems stable or stabler then the other. unfortunately now X wont run at all, starts up and stays frozen but doesnt crash, i can drop back to shell with alt+ctrl+bsp and its fine.

i am going to try the howto on ati