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

[David C. Rankin]

Henning Garus wrote:
> 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.
> 

	For me, I have always used inittab, just because it was always already
provided when I stepped up to Linux with Mandrake (Air) 7.0. The only
considerations I have is "What am I using the box for?"

	If it is a server, then I just like to boot to runlevel 3 and if I want kde,
then I just issue startx, do what I need to do, then logout and I'm dumped back
to the CLI to finish up, and then monitor is turned "off."

	If it is a desktop box with multiple users, then I will want the default to be
runlevel 5 with either kdm or xdm doing the auth so everyone has a nice
graphical logon.

	Right now, I'm still working my way up to getting kde going, then I'll worry
about where I put kdm3 ;-)

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