I prefer also having a runlevel for X rather than a kdm daemon. But instead of changing inittab, I append "5" to the kernel line in grub. That way, if something goes wrong at boot, I can always remove the 5 from the booting, with a default run level of 3. I like being able to choose to load X or not _before_ the machine has booted (and possibily crashed...) 2009/4/22 David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> > Daenyth Blank wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:28, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> >> 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? > > DR >
