[arch-general] gdm not found when booting into runlevel 5

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> 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.

You need to edit /etc/inittab