Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-18 Thread econti
Alex Schuster ha scritto: econti writes: Hi all to-day I successfully updated Xorg (from 6.x to 7.x). A little trouble only; on boot I receive the following error message: Setting up kdm . . . start-stop-daemon: option `--exec' requires an argument Try `start-stop-daemon --help' for more

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Isaiah Dunham
Did you make sure KDM is set as the Display Manager in Xorg config? I Had this problem once before awhile ago, and that was the solution to the problem. econti wrote: Hi all to-day I successfully updated Xorg (from 6.x to 7.x). A little trouble only; on boot I receive the following error

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb Isaiah Dunham: Did you make sure KDM is set as the Display Manager in Xorg config? There's no way to set the DM in Xorg's config. The DM is set in /etc/conf.d/rc (or was it /etc/rc.conf?). Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread derrickdb1
From looking at my system, I have: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm in the /etc/conf.d/xdm file. If you change yours to kdm instead of gdm and make sure it's in the run levels: rc-update add xdm default Unless I'm missing something, that should work. -- Original message --

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hey! There's no way to set the DM in Xorg's config. The DM is set in /etc/conf.d/rc (or was it /etc/rc.conf?). It should be /etc/conf.d/xdm DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Patrick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb Patrick Holthaus: Hey! There's no way to set the DM in Xorg's config. The DM is set in /etc/conf.d/rc (or was it /etc/rc.conf?). It should be /etc/conf.d/xdm DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Oh, yes. Forgot that it was moved to this file a while ago. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread econti
Patrick Holthaus ha scritto: Hey! There's no way to set the DM in Xorg's config. The DM is set in /etc/conf.d/rc (or was it /etc/rc.conf?). It should be /etc/conf.d/xdm DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Patrick It does not work! ;-( DISPLAYMANAGER was already set to kdm In my opinion the

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
econti writes: Hi all to-day I successfully updated Xorg (from 6.x to 7.x). A little trouble only; on boot I receive the following error message: Setting up kdm . . . start-stop-daemon: option `--exec' requires an argument Try `start-stop-daemon --help' for more information *ERROR: could

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, econti wrote: It does not work! ;-( DISPLAYMANAGER was already set to kdm In my opinion the trouble is in /etc/X11/startDM.sh, but I do not know where. Try to do: emerge -1 baselayout I vaguely remember something about xinit and baselayout being dependent on

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Joseph
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 18:35 -0700, Joseph wrote: I can not seem to load kdm. I have in /etc/rc.conf: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm XSESSION=kde-3.4 xdm | default What else to try? -- #Joseph -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: SOLVED. One of those silly human errors. It appears I had kdm already running in one of the session, so it wouldn't restart again. CTRL-ALT-DEL solved the problem. Oh crap, that sounds to much like windoze. /etc/init.d/xdm restart would have fixed that. You didn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:27, Joseph wrote: Now, I'm fighting with kpdf, as it tries to print on A4 instead of letter format. In the kde Control Center, go to Reigonal Accesibility - Country/Reigon Layout select the tab Misc Choose the paper format you prefer. Be aware

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 18:32 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:27, Joseph wrote: Now, I'm fighting with kpdf, as it tries to print on A4 instead of letter format. In the kde Control Center, go to Reigonal Accesibility - Country/Reigon Layout select

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sunday 04 December 2005 19:07, Joseph wrote: In the kde Control Center, go to Reigonal Accesibility - Country/Reigon Layout select the tab Misc Choose the paper format you prefer. Be aware this is the default setting for kde and not just kpdf. I have it letter in there.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start

2005-12-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:36:19 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 19:33 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 19:07, Joseph wrote: In the kde Control Center, go to Reigonal Accesibility - Country/Reigon Layout select the tab