Michael Mueller wrote: > > When I power up my Ultra5 both gpm and xdm are running and they evidently do > not play nicely together. I telnet in to the Ultr5 from another system, > become root, and issue > > $ /etc/init.d/xdm stop > $ /etc/init.d/gpm stop > > Then I log in to my user account on the Ultra5 and run startx and go about my > business. > > I thought I answered "no" to starting xdm during installation. > > How do I prevent xdm and gpm from starting during initialization? > > Is update-rc.d involved?
You can remove the startup links for gdm with the command # update-rc.d -f gdm remove but first I would do as you normally do, then start xdm again # /etc/init.d/xdm start and see if that works for you. If it does work, then you can use the command above to put a stop to gdm starting on init, but leave X to start on init. If you ever need gdm, you can always start it by hand with the command # /etc/init.d/gdm start a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
