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Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X
installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended
up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got the X
login screen.
I was going to post asking how to get rid of X unless I deliberately
started X, but rather than trying to remove the automatic start up I think
I'll use this solution for a while.
Two items I'm not terribly clear about though - if I <CTRL><ALT><F1> from
X into a text console, am I simply suspending X? And, can I return to X
when I'm done with my text console session or do I need to stop & restart X?
73 de Ramsay, KC2GMW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
- ->(Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters!)
- ->
- ->"Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
- ->
- ->> This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough
- ->> information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a
- ->> graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the new Nvidia
- ->> display drivers for X. After the install, I want to re-enable
- ->> booting into X. Does this make more sense?
- ->
- ->If I were doing this, I'd:
- ->
- ->(1) Build the drivers;
- ->(2) Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get a text console, and log in as root;
- ->(3) Run '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' to shut down xdm;
- ->(4) Install the drivers;
- ->(5) Test that 'startx' worked, probably as a normal user from another
- -> VC; and
- ->(6) Run '/etc/init.d/xdm start' to fire up xdm again.
- ->
- ->No reboot or runlevel frobbing required...
- ->
- ->--
- ->David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
- ->"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
- -> -- Abra Mitchell
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| Ramsay D. Seielstad KC2GMW | [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Schenectady, NY, USA | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| "An average working stiff, A bunch of unrelated hobbyist activities, which |
| have no significant value or use other than to occupy my free time and |
| amuse myself ... and trust me, this ain't my employer's opinion or view. |
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