>>> David Turetsky schrieb:
Nope? it just moves the mouse arrow around a bit and a Gnome startup
dialog box as well
I know that?s supposed to immediately exit, and I believe,
Ctl-Alt-<B-S> is supposed to cycle through the various resolutions
but that doesn?t work either
Can I not prevent it from starting in the first place? I tried
booting from the boot floppy, but that just ends up in the same place
>>> wij@Dyn
You run Debian woody? Try Ctrl-Alt-Fx, with x being 1, 2 ... 6. This
will give you a text login screen. You may then:
1) kill gdm (but I think that's not necessary) with
'kill -9 (pidof gdm)'
2) edit /etc/XFree86Config-4 ( much more important ) appropiately,
then reboot.
If you want to disable gdm, so that X will not start automatically,
cd
to /etc/rcX.d, where X stands for your "default" runlevel, most
probably
2. Being root, do
'mv SXYgdm nSXYgdm'
, with XY meaning the number you will easily find out ....
>>> David Turetsky
Without intelligible keyboard functionality, I can't get out of gdm
once I'm in there so these remedies are not available to me. I was
thinking in terms of some sort of Ctl-c while the command line boot
process is in process (hopefully the timing will not end up killing
me some other way). I thought I might succeed by booting from a
floppy, but that ends up putting me in the same place
>>> David Turetsky
On another list Kent West posted:
Linux single
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