On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: hi there,
> 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. my quick(?)&dirty solution : - switch to a txt-console with ctrl-alt-F1 - su - - apt-get remove gdm (and actually this will already let you start in txt-mode after reboot) - init 3 - solve your probs with mouse and keyboard - apt-get install gdm - gdm
