KDM No Longer Starting

guitardan311 · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Memphis, TN

hi, I just installed Gentoo today and love it. I have got it to work so far but now I hit a snag. I was booting up, logging in, and using KDM to select desktop. So I though to make this auto load so I changed the /etc/rc.conf from "DISPLAYMANAGER =xdm" to "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm". But now when I boot up I get a log in screen like KDM but sais "XFREE86" and sais "Welcome to 1" when Log in it gives me something that sais "choose windows manager widget" or something. But nothing can be selected. I tried to ctrl+alt+backspace to exit x but it just went back to the log in screen. What is this and what can I do to get KDM to work? or how can I get to a prompt from this to edit the rc.conf?

thatnks
dan

Shan · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 558 Location: /dev/null

Set your display manager back to xdm, now scroll down and select your session (probably kde-3.2), now run rc-update add xdm default

That'll load XDM (whch will in turn load kdm) at boot.

Gentoo Desktop Handbook

Same as above but meant for X.Org if you're so inclined
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guitardan311 · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Memphis, TN

ok, i have it working. The login window is still poping up, i can get to the prompt after ctrl+alt+backspace 2 time, and logging in and starting kdm. I still cannot get kdm to start automatically. I have tried the config above and some others, cant understand it. also what login screen is this and why does it pop up? (it looks like a win95 login with a "XFree86 Project" logo and sais "welcome to 1" at the top)

Shan · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 558 Location: /dev/null

Its the X / FWM login manager if I'm not mistaken, and it comes default when you install XFree / X.Org.

Still not sure why you're getting it though, you should be getting KDM if you followed the handbook.
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guitardan311 · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Memphis, TN

I dont get it either..is the rc.conf the only thing I need to configure? or am I missing something? I mean it works but its kind of annoying to ctrl+alt+backspace 2x, login, start kdm, and login again everytime I boot.

Shan · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 558 Location: /dev/null

guitardan311 · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Memphis, TN

thats how i had it, i also tried

Shan · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 558 Location: /dev/null

Hrm.. I'll have to look at my own when I get in in the morning (if I'm awake enough to remember

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guitardan311 · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Memphis, TN

ok i have it working now.. im not sure what i did but, i noticed that everytime i saved the file and rebooted it commented the DISPLAYMANAGER and XSESSION. I tried startx and noticed that the value "kde-3.2" did not start kde, so i changed it back to "kde-3.2.2" and startx worked. So I gave DISPLAYMANAGER another shot and put it as kdm and rebooted without "rc-update add xdm default" and it works fine. Thanks alot for helping.

dan