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From: forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:12:46
Message-Id: 20071220045322.GA3802@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X by Neil Bothwick
1 On 22:37 Wed 19 Dec , Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:45:49 -0500 (EST), David Finkel wrote:
3 >
4 > > You should just be able to pass the nox kernel
5 > > command line option at boot, the xdm init script,
6 > > from baselayout, contains a line which checks the
7 > > kernel command line for the xdm parameter.
8 >
9 > This works, but because nox stays in /proc/cmdline, any attempt to run
10 > xdm later will fail. The only way to get back into X is to reboot.
11 >
12 >
13 > --
14 > Neil Bothwick
15 >
16 > Does fuzzy logic tickle?
17
18 How about running startx, or modifying the script to see if boot time
19 was within X of the current time (seeing if this IS boot, or some other
20 time), or maybe (I don't run xdm, or any display manager for that
21 matter) you could just pass an arg to xdm to make it start.
22
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