Various newbie questions

[Stephen Jonke]

I installed YDL 2.3 on my old 366 MHz iBook. Needless to say, I have 
questions. I wasn't able to start X Windows (using xinit) until I 
followed the procedure on the web page to turn off video acceleration. 
This worked, however, after having logged out it seems to not have 
stuck, or in any case I once again get errors when trying to start X 
Windows. Is there a way to make this change permanent? Presumably I 
could put the command in a .login or .bashrc or something?

I have a partition for Mac OS X which I formatted in UFS format, 
thinking it to be visible from Linux, but it isn't. More importantly the 
partition doesn't show up in YDL's boot up OS selector. Fortunately I 
can still select it by holding the option key at startup which dumps me 
into the iBook's open firmware boot volume selector (I was pleased to 
see that YDL showed up in there too, complete with Penguin). I also 
created a mount point during the install at /osx that was supposed to be 
the OS X UFS volume, but when navigating in there there is nothing in 
it. Secondly, I can't see my linux partition from Mac OS X, even from 
the command-line. Or is it that I just don't know where it is I'm 
supposed to look for it?

How do you start KDE? When I log in all I get is a command-line prompt. 
I know that gnome-session starts gnome and I tried that and it worked, 
but how do you start KDE? There is no kde executable that I can find and 
I couldn't find anything in the man pages on kde. I installed the 
developmental workstation packages, or whatever it was called, which was 
supposed to include KDE. No doubt it is a "gnome-session"-like command 
that is simply eluding me.

On the positive side, once I found the info on the web page regarding 
it, I did get my airport network working without problems.

Steve