On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:17:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> [sorry for the broken thread - only saw John's message in the archives]
[fx: uses mutt's thread editing features to glue it back together]
> # apt-get remove xdm
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Th
[sorry for the broken thread - only saw John's message in the archives]
John Hasler writes:
>x-window-system is a dummy package which serves no purpose once the
>packages it depends on are installed. Remove it.
>Apt won't reinstall it if it has been removed.
Ah, thanks John. That's the key bi
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030206 20:02]:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > Frank's quite correct: there's no particular reason why xdm should be
> > reinstalled on upgrade, and you'll be told about it if for some bizarre
> > reason this is going to happen.
>
> Ah good, tha
David Turetsky wrote:
>
David Turetsky wrote:
>
[...]
> How do I abort the startup of x?
>
>
Kent West
>
> At the LILO: prompt, enter "linux single".
[...]
David Turetsky
>
> YES!!! Thank you. Now I can go on to experiment with corrections to
> my XF86Config file
[...]
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> Frank's quite correct: there's no particular reason why xdm should be
> reinstalled on upgrade, and you'll be told about it if for some bizarre
> reason this is going to happen.
Ah good, thanks for the clearing up what Frank was implying.
So if package a
Bill Moseley writes:
> I assume because x-window-system depends on xdm?
x-window-system is a dummy package which serves no purpose once the
packages it depends on are installed. Remove it.
> Or if xdm was updated in a apt-get dist-upgrade?
Apt won't reinstall it if it has been removed.
--
John
>>> David Turetsky wrote:
I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my
keyboard is not being properly recognized, and my mouse is not being
recognized at all. I would like to stay at the command line prompt to
fix the config files, but my system automatical
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:16PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > > You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might
> > > also get reinstalled on update.
> >
> > W
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Turetsky wrote:
>
>My keyboard is dysfunctional under x so any remedy must be to trap
>the system at the command line before x windows starts. How can I do
>this?
Oh, sorry, I missed that point. Kent West's response to boot into single
user mode would be th
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might
> > also get reinstalled on update.
>
> Why would it ?
Is that a rhetorical question?
I assume because x-window-
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Turetsky wrote:
I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my
keyboard is not being properly recognized, and my mouse is not being
recognized at all. I would like to stay at the command line prompt to
fix the config files, but my system a
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might
> also get reinstalled on update.
Why would it ?
Frank
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:11 -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
[...] but my system automatically starts up gdm
How do I abort the startup of x?
>>> Julián Hernández Gómez:
update-rc.d -f gdm remove
>>> David Turetsky: Yes, but how do I get in to do that?
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Turetsky wrote:
> I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my
> keyboard is not being
>
> properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I
> would like to stay
>
> at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my syst
David Turetsky wrote:
I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my
keyboard is not being
properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I
would like to stay
at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my system
automatically
starts up gdm
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:11 -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
[...]
> but my system automatically starts up gdm
>
>How do I abort the startup of x?
update-rc.d -f gdm remove
HTH
Julián Hernández Gómez
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:11PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my
> keyboard is not being
>
> properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I
> would like to stay
>
> at the command line prompt to fix the conf
I finally have a partially working x configuration, but
clearly my keyboard is not being
properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at
all. I would like to stay
at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my
system automatically
starts up gdm
How do I abo
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