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

[Nicolas Bigaouette]

It is indeed a minor usage. But when you need it, it can save your life ;)

2009/4/22 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>

> 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
>