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

Henning Garus henning.garus at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 22 20:09:41 EDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> On Wed, April 22, 2009 7:55 pm, Henning Garus wrote:
>> There is one real advantage to the inittab method. When your X hangs
>> on start, due to misconfiguration or whatever, you don't have to boot
>> from a livecd to remove the daemon from rc.conf, you just have to
>> change your runlevel. Even though it is something you might never
>> need, it is good to know that you have this option.
>
> Or you could just reboot into single user mode and edit your rc.conf.  I
> guess with the runlevel thing the advantage is you wouldn't need to reboot
> though?

Ok you got me there. You would have to reboot anyway once the machine
hangs. I guess there is really no difference besides choosing not to
start X in grub.


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