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

[Nicolas Bigaouette]

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 at darose.net>

> Daenyth Blank wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:28, David Rosenstrauch <darose at 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
>