Re: [LUG] SuSE 8.0 - Login doesn't start X

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Abraham wrote:
> On my system there are 2 XF86Config files:-
> /etc/XF86Config
> and
> /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
> The latter is the one generated by Sax2 and has the NVidia setup
> The former config file does NOT contain the NVidia setup.
> The "//" in Kdm.log seems to suggest that kdm is looking in /etc/XF86Config
> whereas it should be looking in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> Does this sound plausible? And would it be worth copying the /etc/X11
> config to /etc/?

All too plausible

As root I'd just try a symbolic link....
mv /etc/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config.backup
ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config

(on a good day "ln --backup ...." works as well, but I take my
backups manually ;)

> By the way Yast2 does provide it's own runlevel editor on SuSE 8.0.

Progress I wonder?

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