Hi, Maybe I am wrong but doesn't the automatic start of X or not depend on /etc/X11/config ? So if you have no-xdm-start-server in /etc/X11/config, even runing the xdm daemon would not start X automatically ?
George On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > ------ Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia ------ > > On 97/09/12 at 05:22 AM -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Installed X from debian 1.31 CD. > > > > Upon boot the screen comes up with the console login prompt. After I log > > in the console and do a "/etc/init.d/xdm start" the X login window comes > > up and X works fine after logging in. > > > > What must be done to get X to come up automatically instead of stopping at > > the console login prompt? > > The /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm symlink was missing. Made symlink in the /etc/rc2.d > directory of "ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm S99xdm" and all was well. > > Regards, > > -- > Victor Torrico > > ------ Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia ------ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .