Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: No kdm after 2005.0 upgrade

[Daiajo Tibdixious]

On 1/29/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
> Daiajo Tibdixious posted
> <a4a9bfcb0601282116m7e2f144ewa612048f69fb581e@××××××××××.com>, excerpted
> below,  on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:16:18 +1100:
>
> > BTW I would start kde from the command line as Richard explains,
> > however most of the users of this computer make "dumb users" seem
> > smart. They hate having to put a password in, for instance.
>
> Yeah, when you have other users, and they are limited in what they know or
> even /want/ to know... <shakes head>

Sigh.
Anyway, not solved, just a different problem. When I correct DISPLAYMANAGER,
nothing comes up, no X, no XDM, no KDM.
If I enter "kdm" in bash, with no X, it starts X and brings up KDM.
I'm sure under 2004.3 I changed the run level in /etc/inittab, however
3,4,& 5 are all "default" and I don't understand where X is started.
I'd create my own /etc/init.d/kdm module if it weren't for the hoops
xdm seems to have to run thru with its special "a" runlevel. I've
debugged /etc/X11/startDM.sh
${svcdir} is fine and ${svcdir}/options/xdm/services has /usr/bin/kdm.
If I do
$ /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/kdm
it exits with 0 but doesn't start anything. If I
$ . /etc/X11/startDM.sh
It gives a non-specific error message "ERROR: could not start the
Display Manager..."

The only errors I can see in /var/log/Xorg.o.log are
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
The first one has always come up (it loads a default config file later),
and the second is a lie:
# file /dev/fb0
/dev/fb0: character special (29/0)

I tried setting XSESSION again, which gave me "setting up kdm..." in
the startup messages, but did not start kdm.

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