On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X > starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot > up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a solution > other than the obvious. > > Thanks, > Andy >
Is is locking out the <CTRL>+<ALT>+<Fkey> console switching as well? If so, try booting with your mouse unplugged. I had this same problem and this allowed me to get to a console prompt after booting to gdm using CTRL+ALT+F1. ---------------------------------------- Corwin J. Grey Techline, Inc. http://www.techline.com Engineering and Application Development ---------------------------------------- "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of the US population would be scouring garage sales & Goodwill for old TRS-80s, CPM machines & Apple ]['s before they would buy Microsoft. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement." -- Seen on Slashdot
