I installed FC5, and everything was beautiful. When I turned on the system, I was greeted with a completely graphical KDE startup screen, and when it was time to log out I could choose between "log out", "restart", and "power off".

I had forgotten a few options during install, and decided to just reinstall instead of setting it all up manually. After reinstalling everything from scratch, I turned on my computer and was greeted with the classic shell login prompt. This is on a tablet PC which won't always have a keyboard, so this is obviously a problem. I ended up putting "startx" in rc.local to force X to come up before the login screen which worked pretty good-- until I realized that I couldn't use alt+F[n] to switch screens; I only had access to F1 and F2, the first being the startup info and the second being the X window.

So, I took startx out of rc.local and changed the default init level in inittab to 5. Now I've got X running from the beginning and can use all my extra shell screens, but... I had some other commands ("setserial....") in my rc.local that need to be run before the touch screen will work, and they no longer get executed. If I switch to a shell and type them in manually, the touch screen starts working fine. I've tried putting them in various config files all over the place and can't figure out the best place for them. Anyone know where I *should* put something like this?

And last but not least, on this new install of Fedora, the log out options are limited to "log out". I then have to manually log in at the shell prompt and manually shut down. Again, on a tablet PC with no keyboard this will be very difficult. Anyone know how to get the shutdown menu back to how it's supposed to be?

Thanks!

Try putting the commands in a startup script that runs in your login directory... like the bash startup script .bashrc or something i forget what it was

I got it working, actually. I set it back to 3 for the default runlevel, and in the rc.local I use the login manager (kdm) instead of X itself (startx). Now it runs my commands, logs me in, AND lets me power off from the shutdown menu.