[ale] What do I have to install/enable to get X started?

Jerry Yu jjj863 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 14:56:16 EST 2007


XDM/GDM/KDM is defined for run level 5, via /etc/inittab
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

On 2/19/07, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 'init 5' ?
> vi /etc/inittab  (therein, change "default:3*" to "default:5*")
>
> On 2/19/07, Jim < ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to turn a server into a desktop.  I've install KDE and
> > utilities, but KDM says no displays available so I'm sure X isn't
> > running yet.  Problem is I can't figure out what starts X.  This is a
> > Centos system, so I looked through a running FC6 system but there's
> > nothing in /etc/init.d that mentions Xorg.
> >
> > So what the heck do I need to do to get GDM or KDM running after boot?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim.
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