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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> 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?

I run slim from the daemons array. Never had a problem with it.

The only added advantage of using runlevels is that I can chose to
boot into runlevel 3 or 4 if I don't want X (assuming it was set to
run on runlevel 5).

But that's minor to my usage