[TriLUG] Graphical Login Help

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 10:42, Paul D. Boyle wrote:
>
> That's what it is.  SuSE uses the same run level designators
> as Redhat.
> 
> Is there some file buried somewhere in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lib
> or /etc/X11/ hierarchies at which I should be looking?
> 
> Some more detail:  I had placed /opt on a seperate file system
> (and different physical disk), and then in the course of fiddling around,
> I had given that partition a 'noauto' option.  It was at this point that
> I lost the KDM display manager. I undid my 'noauto' stuff, rebooted, but
> it never went back to the way it was, despite my efforts to reconfigure
> the graphical login with the SuSE tools provided.

Do you have kde on the /opt disk?  I know this is the "recommended"
place to put it, but redhat and mandrake put it in /usr.  I don't
know what SuSE does.  If so, then it would make sense that
it wouldn't work because it couldn't get to KDM.  

Mandrake (and I assume redhat, perhaps) has a little script in
/etc/X11 called prefdm that chooses which display manager you
use.  You might check there.  It's possible that if it couldn't
find KDM it rewrote some configuration file.  Are GDM or XDM
also installed on this machine?  

Hmm... it appears that on Mandrake, the choice of which display
manager is controlled by the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file.  YMMV
on SuSE, though.

I would also look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log just after you boot
up.  If X is giving any error messages they will be there.

Tanner
P.S. Sorry I keep mentioning Mandrake when you're on SuSE but
that's what I have access too.  I hope it isn't too different
that I'm directing you to the wrong things.
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