No desktop

[turbinater]

Okay, let's start from the beginning. Click on that big K on the panel, located at the bottom of the screen. Now go to system->ksysv; It will ask for your root password (eg. the the password you typed in while installing knoppix to your hard drive, NOT your user password).

Now you will be asked a couple questions about your system.
This part should be pretty straight forward:
Operating System = Linux
Distribution = Debian

After completing this step, you will be givin a window called SysV-Init editor.
Maximise this window, you will need a bit of space.

The next thing to do is check to see if kdm is in the boxes marked Runlevel 2, Runlevel 3, Runlevel 4, and Runlevel 5. If it's there, it will be located at the very bottom, just above rmnologin.

If you find it there, something is most likely causing init to crash during startup. If it isn't there, add it:

There's a box to the very left of you, called Available Services. Scroll down until you find kdm. Once you have found it drag it to the bottom of Runlevel 2, just above rmnologin. Do the same for Runlevels 3-5.

Now that we have that done, we need to drag it to the box that says Stop, which is located under Runlevel 0, make sure it's the first one in the list. Do the same for the box Stop, located under Runlevel 6. Do NOT add it to Stop under Runlevel 1.

now click on file->save; you are now finished.

- hope this will help

[shah]

Try check your /etc/initab.
Check at the top and you will see something like this:

# The default runlevel.
id:5:initdefault:

Change the id:X:initdefault: to above if it is different.

When you install knoppix from konsole ( not entering kde or X ) you usually will get something like:
id:3:initdefault:

Also make sure yout /etc/rc5.d has a symlink to kdm (S99kdm) as mention by turbinater.

[Durand Hicks]

The quickest, easiest way to put the symlinks in the rc directories is to do this as root in a console:

dpkg-reconfigure kdm
or 
apt-get install --reinstall kdm

Either one will put the correct symlinks in the rc directories in the proper default order.

HTH,

Durand

[Kevin]

Thanks a bunch for the great help, guys!

For some reason, after I used the command to turn on the desktop, the next time I rebooted, it went straight to it..So I'm not sure what was wrong there, but anyways, it's working!

[shah]

You need to disable autologin in in your login in manager under Control Center.