Re: [LUG] SuSE 8.0 - Login does start X

[Keith Abraham <keith.abraham@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 4:16 pm, Simon Waters wrote:
> Keith Abraham wrote:
> > On my system there are 2 XF86Config files:-
> > /etc/XF86Config
> > and
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config
> >
> > The latter is the one generated by Sax2 and has the NVidia setup
> > The former config file does NOT contain the NVidia setup.
> > The "//" in Kdm.log seems to suggest that kdm is looking in
> > /etc/XF86Config whereas it should be looking in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> > Does this sound plausible? And would it be worth copying the /etc/X11
> > config to /etc/?
>
> All too plausible
>
> As root I'd just try a symbolic link....
> mv /etc/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config.backup
> ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config
>
> (on a good day "ln --backup ...." works as well, but I take my
> backups manually ;)
>
> > By the way Yast2 does provide it's own runlevel editor on SuSE 8.0.
>
> Progress I wonder?

Sorry Simon that made no difference to the login.
I've since discovered that /etc/XF86Config was where the XF86Free 3.0
config lived. Since 4.0 Xf86Config moved to /etc/X11.

I've done what I should have done a long time ago; looked in KDE FAQ.
It suggested adding

x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon

to inittab. Which I did and now have GUI login.
It's always easy in the end!

Still along the way I've learnt a few more thing about Linux.
Many thanks to you and all the other guys for your help.

Keith



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