At 04:03 PM 9/26/02 +0000, pa3gcu wrote: >On Thursday 26 September 2002 13:56, Sagar N Chand wrote: > > I've recently installed Mandrake on my system. > > Everything is well and good. But by default it is going > > into xwindows for the login. I changed the runlevel to 3 in the > > etc\inittab file and now it is showing the login in the console > > mode only. Is there any other way to do this??? > >No that i know off, what is it you really want, you need to login one way or >the other. > >You can use both tho' simply use runlevel 4 or 5 (dont know what mandrake >uses for X) after startup you can go to console mode with ctrl-alt-F6 and >login on the console. >ctrl-alt-F2 to return to X.
I missed this one first time through. Richard's solution is a correct one, but there may be another, depending on what *exactly* you mean by "do this". The other possible solution to running both consoles and X is to start in runlevel 3, then log into a console and start X manually. You usually do this with the command "startx", which is a shell script that sets up some stuff, then calls xinit, the binary that actually starts X. I don't know if a standard Mandrake install sets up startx or if you will need to do some setup manually. If you do it this way, X will most likely be running on console 7, with tty consoles running on 1-6. As with Richard's approach, you use CTRL-ALT-F7 (or just ALT-F7) to get to X, and CTRL-ALT-F1 to -F6 to get back to the consoles from the X display. (That is, if X is on the displa,y you need CTRL-ALT-Fsomething to switch, but from a command-line tty you can use either CRTL-ALT-Fsomething or ALT-Fsomething to switch consoles). This is what I catually do on my workstations, BTW ... but I happen not to like xdm as a login mechanism. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
