On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:25:57 PM IST, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Respected sir > I am running Ubuntu 11.04 (x6) > > I am seeking a help regarding following issues. > > 1) How to turn off the X server when I have already logged into ubuntu. > (I know about startx to start the X server but don't know how to shut it.) >
# pkill X > 2) When I start my machine, Ubuntu directly boots with automatically > starting the X. > What I need to do if I want to boot to plane terminal instead of X. > (after that I can use 'startx' to start the X if I feel so) > Older editions of Ubuntu used something called init & inittab, so it was easy to do by editing a single line in /etc/inittab. Don't know about newer ones. > 3) When Ubuntu gets booted its shows some log. like ".. graphics turbo > disabled.. ... started...". > Same things happen when I shut down the system. > Where I can see those both the logs..? > /var/log/messages or dmesg (this depends on the OS actually, and the rc scripts). -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
