Apparently, though unproven, at 08:42 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Coert Waagmeester did opine thusly:
> Hello all, > > Building myself a new media center setup. > I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def > video. > > Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its place. > Normal Gentoo install. > > How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC? > Which (xdm,kdm,etc) should I use for this? > Or should I just start an xsession with xbmc out of some sort of init > script? > > On the XBMC forum I have found this link, and will try to get that going > in the meantime. > http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=41739 > > Any other media center tips would be appreciated! > Also going to try and put a normal USB plug on one of the old xbox > controllers. Inspect /etc/inittab, especially the last section relating to xdm, this refers you to /etc/init.d/xdm which uses DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm Setting DISPLAYMANAGER to a script of your own should work. Perhaps /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone could be useful here. The point being, the xdm function in the init scripts does not have to start a full display manager, it can launch anything of your choice -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
