[arch-general] gdm not found when booting into runlevel 5
Nigel Henry
cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Thu Jun 19 15:23:32 EDT 2008
I already have one instance of Archlinux installed that has xorg, and KDE
installed, and from looking at /var/cache/pacman/pkg, I also have gdm
installed. Now this instance of Archlinux works fine, and I can login to KDE
with no problems. The graphics driver is trident, and according
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, that is the one that is being used.
I now have installed another instance of Archlinux (Don't Panic) on a new
machine that I've built. Mobo is Asus M2N-X Plus, and has no onboard graphics
card, so I installed one with an ati chipset .
Booting into Archlinux is ok, and I did a pacman -S xorg, and after that, a
startx started the xserver with no problems, apart from the usual crappy
display.
I then did a pacman -S kde, and a whole bunch of kde stuff was installed, but
a reboot, and changing to runlevel 5 just brought me back to the text
(runlevel3) login.
Looking at my earlier install of Don't Panic, I see that I'd also installed
the gdm package, so I installed it on my new install of Don't Panic. Doing a
reboot after this, there is no change, and booting up, and appending the
kernel line to 5 has no effect, and I still find myself in runlevel 3.
Is there some file that I need to edit, in order to use gdm as the display
manager?
Nigel.
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