[arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?

[Andrei Thorp]

startx is really just a small wrapper around the X command. (It's a
250 line shell script at /usr/bin/startx)

What it mostly does is invoke "X" with a few arguments, one of  which
is your .xinitrc file, which is also a shell script. If you're not
familiar with this file, what it is is a list of programs which should
be started (it's literally just a shell script). Mostly what you'd
want to do is background a bunch of programs like:

pidgin &
terminal &

And then at the end have one main program that runs:

metacity # or whatever you use -- possibly kdm3 will work here.

Then literally those programs will start. You can do more complex
constructs since shell supports if/for/while, etc.

Anyway, good luck.

-AT

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Holloway <me at holloway-web.de> wrote:
> 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 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
>