Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[Alex Hudson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lesley,

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:35 +0000, Lesley Anne Binks wrote:
> I have tried to stop this distro from deciding that eth2 needs to be
> bought up in half-duplex mode and merrily assigning it a 169.254/16
> network address.  But it defintely has other ideas and consistently
> insists on having that interface up - doesn't matter how - half duplex
> mode'll do.

This isn't a distro problem; this is just modern software - it's
actually behaving correctly by auto-configuring a link local address.

If you configure static interfaces, it won't touch them - so you can
either do that, or remove NetworkManager (which isn't GNOME software per
se).

> Despite having stopped the gdm from being loaded in the relevant rcn.d
> dir ..... and setting the default-display manager to kdm .... I get
> gnome  Every time.

GNOME isn't tied to GDM, and logging in via GDM doesn't necessarily get
you GNOME. 

When you get to the login screen, you should find you can select which
Session you want to run - go in there, and select KDE. It'll remember
your preference and do it the same next time.

Hope that helps!

Alex.


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