> The difference is that when it boots up I end up at the penguin screen,
> asking for the login...not the KDE asking for the login.
>
> If I logon an type KDE to start it...I now get the following errors;
>
> kcontrol: cannot connect to X server
> kaudioserver: cannot connect to X server
> maudio: cannot open audio device
> krootwm: cannot connect to server
> ...etc...
>
> My first install had it going to the KDE...
>
> What have I done wrong regarding the X server and the KDE not coming up as
> default??
>
You have to type "startx" not "kde" to start X with KDE.
Howver, (unless Mandrake is doing it differently than
RedHat) you'll have to change desktop managers once you've
started X as it defaults to Gnome.