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Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??



On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:57:57PM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> 
> --- "Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:12:56PM -0800,
> > Xucaen wrote:
> > > in /etc/rc3.d I canged the symlink of S99xdm
> > from
> > > ../init.d/xdm to /dev/null
> > 
> > Aargh! Don't do that.  Just remove the symlink
> > S99xdm and XDM will not
> > be run at boot for the given runlevel.  As long
> > as you leave one symlink
> > in one of the rc?.d dirs, upgrades of xdm will
> > never modify these
> > settings.
> > 
> 
> Are you saying that pointing S99xdm to /dev/null
> caused XF86Setup to hang the system?

Doesn't seem likely, but the semantics of symlinking an rc?.d entry to
/dev/null seems wrong.  If XF86Setup is buggered on your system,
xf86config and xvidtune should be suffiecient to get X 3 up and running.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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