Asim Jamshed wrote:
If you have installed xdm or kdm (or gdm or wdm), it'll automagically install the appropriate links in /etc/rc2.d; there's no reason to change your default run level to 5 (2 through 5 are the same on Debian by default; you as the sysadmin have the control to make those different).Hi, I recently installed xfree86 and kde in my computer. On booting the machine, it failed to start the xserver and hence xdm/kdm. I have changed the init level to 5 from /etc/inittab but I cant figure out which soft links I have to add in the rc5.d directory in order to start the GUI.
If xdm/kdm is not starting when 2 is your normal runlevel, something's broken.
P.S. The GUI runs when I execute startx followed by kde.bin from the kde2 directory once I log in thru command line user interface.
What do you mean "startx followed by kde.bin"?If you run "startx", it should start X along with the default window manager/environment, or whatever you've specified in "~/.xinitrc" and/or "~.xsession".
Perhaps you're starting X with "startx", and once you're in, you're opening a terminal and then starting KDE with the "kde.bin" command. (I don't find such a "kde.bin" on my system, but then I'm not running such an old version of X. Woody is ancient; you might want to consider upgrading to Testing or Sid, if this is a workstation rather than a server, which is semi-implied since you're running X.)
-- Kent