If you want KDE to start when you startx, put "startkde" in your .xinitrc.
As for the nv driver, its not a kernel driver, its an Xorg driver. It's been
drop since it sucks ****. Instead try nouveau:
pacman -S extra/xf86-video-nouveau
2009/4/22 David C. Rankin
Hey there,
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:00:41AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
I have found /etc/rc.d/kdm3, and I am searching for where it gets
called by
startx -- any hints? Also, I'll try downgrading the nvidia driver, in
Holloway wrote: the mean
time.
One way is to put kdm3 in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf. Then it magically appears at boot time.
If you want to start KDE through startx you have to edit your ~/.xinitrc.
Greets
Herein lies the problem, I have no ~/.xinitrc,
[15:01 archangel:/etc/X11] # l /home/david total 80 drwx------ 10 david 1052 4096 2009-04-22 04:20 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-04-21 00:07 .. -rw------- 1 david david 0 2009-04-22 04:20 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 david 1052 1510 2009-04-22 04:21 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 david 1052 16 2009-01-28 13:30 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 david 1052 7019 2009-04-21 22:56 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 108 2009-04-21 00:12 .bashrc.sav -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 6855 2009-04-21 00:12 .bashrc~ -rw-r--r-- 1 david 1052 0 2009-04-20 23:53 .fonts -rw-r--r-- 1 david 1052 0 2009-04-20 23:53 .inputrc drwxr-xr-x 3 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:05 .kde -rw------- 1 david david 128 2009-04-21 00:13 .my.cnf drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:05 .qt drwx------ 2 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:06 .ssh -rw------- 1 david david 1723 2009-04-21 23:21 .viminfo -rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 1446 2009-04-22 02:03 .xinitrc.template drwxr-xr-x 2 david 1052 4096 2009-04-21 16:16 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 david 1052 4096 2009-04-21 23:34 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 david david 4096 2009-04-21 17:29 linux drwxr-xr-x 2 david 1052 4096 2009-04-20 23:51 public_html drwxr-xr-x 2 david 1052 4096 2009-04-20 23:51 tmp
The .xinitrc.template above is just what I copied from openSuSE that I've been picking through to come up with an .xinitrc that will work. I haven't had time to completely finish messing with it yet, but that's for this evening. After comments, I think my approach will be to mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf to xorg.conf.sav, regen an xorg.conf with nvidia-config and failing that, remove xorg.conf all together and try it that way. I'll report back.
One other question. I wasn't able to locate the nv opensource kernel module. Anybody know where it's hidden just in case the nvidia driver itself refuses to work? Thanks.
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