It is indeed a minor usage. But when you need it, it can save your life ;) 2009/4/22 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > 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? > > I run slim from the daemons array. Never had a problem with it. > > The only added advantage of using runlevels is that I can chose to > boot into runlevel 3 or 4 if I don't want X (assuming it was set to > run on runlevel 5). > > But that's minor to my usage >
