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    How do I make X start at boot? [SOLVED]

    I'd configured my computer to not start X at boot (because it was running as a server for a while). And now, I've forgotten what I did. How do I make it start X at boot?

    UPDATE:

    Solved by running the following
    Code:
    sudo update-rc.d gdm defaults
    (If running kdm it would be that instead of gdm)
    I am running Ubuntu 8.10 (yes Gnome) with upgrades applied daily about 0900 UK time. Hardware is Dell Precision 420, 2x 800 MHz PIII, 512 MB RDRAM, nVidia GeForce 6800 128 MB AGP graphics, 18GB SCSI and 500GB IDE HDDs, DVD burner, Hauppage TV card.

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    Re: How do I make X start at boot?

    I am not sure how you did it, but what causes it to start in Kubuntu is a link in /etc/rc2.d to /etc/init.d/kdm. If you are using Gnome you are probably using GDM instead of KDM and you may have used some GUI tool for editing the SysV links. In Kubuntu 8.10 you would "cd /etc/rc2.d" and ls -l should show

    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2009-02-24 13:02 S30kdm -> ../init.d/kdm

    If it does not, create the link with
    sudo ln -s ../init.d/kdm S30kdm

    If you need gdm instead, just substitute gdm for kdm.

    sudo ln -s ../init.d/gdm S30gdm

    If you used a GUI SysV editor to disable it you should probably use that to enable it also.

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