can't boot directly into X?

shanenin · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject: can't boot directly into X?

It is still just booting into a text environment. This is the procedure I did to try to boot into X. in my /etc/inittab I changed the runlevel to 5. In my /etc/rc.conf I did the following

StaffanP · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 35 Location: Sweden

runlevel 3 in /etc/inittab is fine..

did you do

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject:

Man, you beat me to it!
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shanenin · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys that works.

I have to say gentoo does things quite differently then slackware, as far a configuration.

why does this line work?
rc-update add xdm default
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Cherad · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Posts: 49

The basic workings of Gentoo's init system are described here:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml

A read through all of the documentation on the Gentoo site will never be time wasted. It's well-written and very informative.

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

Let's see... rc-update is basically a nice script that allows you to easily manage stuff that runs at startup. This stuff is in /etc/init.d and can be configured in /etc/conf.d. So, let's dissect the command.

rc-update add xdm default

I've already explained rc-update. add is pretty self-explanatory, since there is also a del command. xdm is one of the programs that can start up at bootup, it's the thing you use if you want to use xdm, gdm or kdm. defualt is the runlevel, which you don't really need to worry about right now.
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