x not starting

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:33 -0400, tyche wrote:
> having a hard time getting x to run on initial bootup. 
> defaulting for the time being into run level 3, and having to 
> run the setup utility BEFORE running startx.
> 
> the monitor is viewsonic m70 and the video is an ati radeon 
> 7000 se (pci with 64mb ram).
> 
> any help would be appreciated.

Gang, while what Tyche said is useful, we need to know which version
of the OS you're running.

As to getting X to start up on boot, if you didn't initially install
in GUI mode, you must edit the /etc/inittab file.  Find the line that
reads:

	id:3:initdefault:

And change it to read:

	id:5:initdefault:

In other words, change the "3" to a "5".  The system will boot to GUI
mode on the next boot.

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