Re: Auto start of X in linux

Thanks Tim and Ron,

I have altered my system so it does now boot into the X-server and it
does so fine apart from one annoyance which it seems to have acquired.
When I get to the graphic login screen and type in my login and password
it is always rejected on the first attempt and accepted on the second
(that is, I have to repeat the login process before the machine is happy
and will proceed) - any ideas? I have also followed Tim's suggestion re
the floppy disk mod and this is much easier.
In addition I have installed Star Office 5.0 (which is free) and I'm
very impressed, however, (there always seems to be an 'however' with
linux doesn't there?) I don't seem to be able to find any coherent
instructions anywhere as to how I can put an instruction for this to
start on request on an icon or menu. Can you point me in the right
direction or give one of your simple 'how-to lessons' please?

I did take note of Ron's warning about potential difficulties in
starting a dodgy X-server but I noticed in one of the 'man' pages that
you can get out of trouble by booting the machine with a 'linux 1'
command which I think I will be able to do easily as I have installed a
multi-boot system in lilo.

Thanks,

Ian

Tim Goldstein wrote:

> Been running my systems that way from the day I installed them.
>
> There are quite a number of things you can do to "customize" your
> installation. My favorite is edit your /etc/fstab file so that you can mount
> the floppy with just the command:
> mount /mnt/floppy
> instead of the command:
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> Just change the file type in fstab from ext2 to msdos

> > From: Ron Ginger [mailto:ginger@...]

> > It is possible to make x start after every boot. My red hat 5.2 book, on
> > page 94, gives the details. Basically you modify inittab to goto run
> > level 5 on start. That will start the x server, and an xdm session.
> >
> > You will still have to log in to x and start up emc, but at least the
> > first screen you get to will be a nice graphic login box.
> >
> > I would point out however, that if xdm inst right, and you
> > automatically go to runlevel 5 you can get the system into some hard to
> > recover from states- i.e. if you re-boot it goes right to xdm, but you
> > cant login to fix an xdm problem, so you are hung. Test xdm carefully
> > before you make it the default startup.

Best wishes

Ian

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