EeePC 900

[waterhead]

I just picked up one of these at Target, for $299.99 USD. I'm making my first post with it. The system specs are:

Intel Celeron M CPU 900MHz
512MB RAM
4GB hard drive
Linux OS (Xandros?)
Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

I have already modified it so that it has a KDE desktop. The problem that I have is that it defaults to the original desktop. I have to select the logoff button, and then select the 'Full Desktop' button before I get the KDE desktop.

Does anyone know a way to make it start the KDE desktop by default?

[Roxoff]

Go to 'Settings' and 'Personalisation'. Find 'Login Mode' and select 'Full Desktop Mode', which should be there if you have kde kicker installed.

This isn't how I did it, btw (it's not so straightforward to do the full desktop stuff on the 901). I did it by installing Fedora 9 on an 8GB SDHC memory card, and now I can choose Gnome or KDE.

[waterhead]

Thanks, but I already got it working. I forgot that I even posted about it.

I basically followed the instructions found here:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde

I don't recall having to add any repositories first, but I may have. Then I opened a terminal with the Ctrl+Alt+T keys. To get root privileges I used this command:

sudo bash

I am looking at my terminal history for what I did. It looks like I had trouble with apt, so I started Synaptic from the terminal. I think that I then added this repository.

URI:  http://xnv4.xandros.com/4.0/pkg/
Distribution:  xandros4.0-xn
Section(s):  main contrib non-free

I then installed these programs using Synaptic.

kicker
kmserver

To get it to boot into the KDE desktop, I followed these instructions:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde...le_boot_effect

I created a hidden file in my home directory named .xinitrc containing this.

#Needed to get automount working
xhost + si:localuser:root
sudo rm /tmp/nologin
 
#Needed to get the network working
sudo /opt/xandros/bin/start_netserv &
 
startkde

This seems to work OK, but I still need to disable the popups for my SD card at boot. There is a way to do that too, it seems