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

[David C. Rankin]

kludge wrote:
> Andrei Thorp wrote:
>> And usually, Slim's a fat bastard. Maybe not this time though :/
>>
>> -AT
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>>> David C. Rankin wrote:
>>>> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>>>> And if a non-X boot was needed, you could achieve it by just taking slim
>>>>> out of the rc.conf daemons list, and just starting /etc/rc.d/slim from
>>>>> the command line when/if needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> DR
>>>>>
>>>>        OK, I just have to know -- who is slim? Every time in my life I
>>>> have run
>>>> across anyone named "Slim" or "Lefty", they usually turn out to be pretty
>>>> shady
>>>> characters... So what's this thing named 'slim' like on Arch?  ;-)
>>> See http://slim.berlios.de/
>>>
>>> DR
>>>
> 
> i used slim for a while, and frankly, it pissed me off.  damned thing
> would crash on switching from one vc to the other *all* *the* *damned*
> time, but not reliably enough to pin down the bug.
> 
> i've finally given up on gdms... i just login to a shell now.
> 
> -kludge
> 

	Yep, holds true today as well, any time you run into a 'slim' or 'lefty',
watch'em, there usually shady characters;-)

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