Frederic Conrotte wrote: > Since I switched to Linux with MDK8.2, I've always noticed the XFS > daemon (X Font Server) and the DM daemon (Display Manager) are not > started among the first services to be started. DM need XFS started > before it can be launched. > > DM is the services that launch KDE and therefore the sooner it is > started the sooner you will get KDE up. > > For example, for MDK9.2, I moved XFS and DM to S01xfs and S02dm in > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/: > > S01xfs > S02dm > S03iptables > S09network
Yes but dm needs networking at the least. This solution may work for you but mandrake has to have sane defaults for everyone. Which is the general problem with suggestions. Most people only take their own preferences and situation in account. # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
