Starting xdm in boot runlevel

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 581

Hi I just had the thougt that appart from udev, there are no services, that xdm needs on my machine. It would be really cool to change xdm to boot runlevel, but somehow keyboard deosnt work. Why. The X server takes a while to start anyway, so why not starting it while everything else is beeing started? I think red hat used to start a x server instead of frame buffer animation (rhgb) so it should work. what am I doing wrong?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:52 am Post subject:

bastibasti,

xdm needs networking.

The idea of several runlevels, is it provides a safety net.
The boot runlevel should contain only things needed to get you to a console prompt, so you can log into a minimally functional system.

Adding xdm to the boot runlevel means you may not be able to use the system without a liveCD if xdm and its dependancies fail to start.
It does not save ant boot time as the service start order is defined in the the /etc/init.d/ scripts.

Play with bootlogger and parallel startup. See /etc/rc or /etc/conf.d/rc... depending on your baselayout version
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bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 581

whatta pitty. mmhh. I have baselayout2, openrc0.25 and parralel boot already, but this is only a 1.5ghz machine. seems that I cannot tweak any further :-(

thanks for the quick response

ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

If booting is too slow for you, you might peek into hibernation...

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