I prefer also having a runlevel for X rather than a kdm daemon. But instead of changing inittab, I append "5" to the kernel line in grub. That way, if something goes wrong at boot, I can always remove the 5 from the booting, with a default run level of 3. I like being able to choose to load X or not _before_ the machine has booted (and possibily crashed...) 2009/4/22 David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>
Daenyth Blank wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:28, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
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 the mean time.
No need to call startx. Just add kdm3 to the DAEMONS line in your rc.conf. That will start X and KDM.
HTH,
DR
Adding your DM to DAEMONS is really unclean and generally inferior. Add it to inittab instead.
lol!
One of the things I like about Arch is that it uses rc.conf - one, single, central, easy-to-understand config file that controls much of the workings of my system. It controls everything from the modules you load, to your network config, to all the things you want to load at system startup.
X and KDM are things I want to load at startup, therefore rc.conf would seem to be the perfect place to put that on an Arch box. Seems nice and clean to me. Matter of fact, having to go muck about in inittab seems pretty UNclean. (In fact, I don't think I've ever had to edit inittab once on the 5 or 6 Arch boxes I've had over the years.)
Just wondering: any particular source of information that you're basing your "unclean and generally inferior" assertion on?
DR