On Mon, 3 May 2010 13:44:50 +0000, Colleen Beamer wrote: > I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login > screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a > terminal session.
At the GRUB menu, add "gentoo=nox" to the kernel options, using the method explained by Alan. The advantage of this method is that it gives you a fully working system, running everything in your default runlevel except xdm. When you have made the changes and want to test them, /etc/init.d/xdm restart fires up X with no need to reboot. Note for the pedants: The xdm init script is run, but it checks for the nox flag and exits without starting X, that's why to need to restart it to run X.
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