xdm and twm

[budman7]

I installed Gentoo Stage 3 on a friends machine.
He wanted to be able to login to X by default. So I set the inittab file to boot to runlevel 5 and did

rc-update add xdm default

Now whenever the machine boots, it will only bring up twm, no kde. No option for which session to choose from. At least not that I can see.
KDE and Xfce4 are installed.

So I edited inittab, set it to boot to runlevel 3.
Created a .xinitrc file, put "exec startkde".

But it still boots to runlevel 5 and TWM.
So I did

rc-update del xdm default

Now it will boot to command-line and if I use "startx", KDE will start up.

Does anybody know how I can get this to boot to runlevel and KDE?

[dylunio]

erm, try setting the inittab to the default runlevel of 3, then

rc-update add xdm default

and make sure he has

exec startkde

If that doesn't work you might want to look into gdm or kdm instead of xdm.

[psic]

Just a thought: have you emerged xdm? Also, make sure your /etc/rc.conf has the DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" line.