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On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:07:21AM -0400, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> I want Xvesa to start immediately upon booting BL3. I know I should be 
> editing /etc/inittab to get this to happen 
> (that's how Steven did it for one of his presentations, as documented in 
> the archive), but I'm not sure exactly _how_ 
> to edit it. Putting the path to startx in place of /bin/sh doesn't work: it 
> returns an error message that xinit could 
> not be found. So, what is the way to edit /etc/inittab in order to get BL3 
> to boot straight into Xvesa?

I think I've resolved this by editing startx and putting the full path to 
xinit (/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit) there. After 
doing that and changing askfirst to respawn for the first tty in 
/etc/inittab, the system does boot straight into 
Xvesa. Did I do this the right way, or is there some better way?

Thanks,
James