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

[David C. Rankin]

Holloway 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
> 

	Herein lies the problem, I have no ~/.xinitrc,

[15:01 archangel:/etc/X11] # l /home/david
total 80
drwx------ 10 david  1052 4096 2009-04-22 04:20 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  root  4096 2009-04-21 00:07 ..
-rw-------  1 david david    0 2009-04-22 04:20 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 david  1052 1510 2009-04-22 04:21 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 david  1052   16 2009-01-28 13:30 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 david  1052 7019 2009-04-21 22:56 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 david david  108 2009-04-21 00:12 .bashrc.sav
-rw-r--r--  1 david david 6855 2009-04-21 00:12 .bashrc~
-rw-r--r--  1 david  1052    0 2009-04-20 23:53 .fonts
-rw-r--r--  1 david  1052    0 2009-04-20 23:53 .inputrc
drwxr-xr-x  3 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:05 .kde
-rw-------  1 david david  128 2009-04-21 00:13 .my.cnf
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:05 .qt
drwx------  2 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:06 .ssh
-rw-------  1 david david 1723 2009-04-21 23:21 .viminfo
-rwxr-xr-x  1 david david 1446 2009-04-22 02:03 .xinitrc.template
drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-21 16:16 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-21 23:34 bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 david david 4096 2009-04-21 17:29 linux
drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-20 23:51 public_html
drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-20 23:51 tmp

	The .xinitrc.template above is just what I copied from openSuSE that I've been
picking through to come up with an .xinitrc that will work. I haven't had time
to completely finish messing with it yet, but that's for this evening. After
comments, I think my approach will be to mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf to
xorg.conf.sav, regen an xorg.conf with nvidia-config and failing that, remove
xorg.conf all together and try it that way. I'll report back.

	One other question. I wasn't able to locate the nv opensource kernel module.
Anybody know where it's hidden just in case the nvidia driver itself refuses to
work? Thanks.

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