On Wednesday 21 Aug 2002 22:23, Ben Reser wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:49:26AM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > > A side-effect of dm starting X is that you don't get to see the > > status messages of things that run after dm, which is a bit annoying
Actually you *can* do [Alt-F1] as soon as that damned wait cursor appears, but *why* on earth should we. If we didn't want to see that stuff rolling down the screen we could use "quiet" at boot -- but for those of us who want to know what's going on this is pretty disgraceful. > > :\. I changed from OSS to ALSA and had to check /var/log/messages to > > make sure it had started correctly, since ALSA is started after dm... > > The question was asked but there has yet to be a straight answer. WHY > did we switch from inittab to a initscript? Copy someone else?? -- Gentoo Linux (portage-2.0.28). KDE: 3.0.2 Qt: 3.0.5 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 513MB. Kernel: 2.4.19-win4lin Linux user #275590 (http://counter.li.org/). up 1:34. #=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=#
