Compaq Presario 2100 -Fedora 7

[thandabilli]

Hi

A noob here !!!

Installed Fedora 7 on Compaq Presario 2100 laptop with 256MB RAM --.

Dual boots with the original Windows XP.

The installation from the Fedora 7 DVD went without a hitch in the text mode as insufficient RAM.

The laptop boots up into a CLI mode and asks for user name etc. Once I log in, I can start the GUI with startx.

What do I need to modify, so that it boots directly into a GUI login prompt ?? The /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?? What exactly ??

Also, once the GUI comes up, how do I shut down the system. Cannot find an icon for shut down option, all I have is a logoff option under "System".

All help much appreciated.

Cheers

[Dan]

Unless I'm mistaken, all you have to do is tell GRUB to run rhgb and boot to runlevel 5.

[leigh123linux]

try

su
gedit /etc/inittab


and make the default 5

#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.  
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

[Dan]

That'll do it!

[thandabilli]

That worked great.
Got the shutdown icon too.

Many Thanks

thandabilli