No, I don't plan to use gnome, and the idea you gave me about removing the gdm package seems to have fixed it. Thanks Kenny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:05 AM Subject: Re: New Debian installation and confused. > Hi. > > First question, do you plan to use Gnome? > > If not, you can remove some packages and get the system back to a text login. > > You need to remove the package called the display manager. It is probably gdm, but it might also be xdm or kdm. > > Try typing: > > apt-get remove gdm > > as root. If it succeeds, the next time you boot you will be at tty1 in text mode. > If it fails, try running it with xdm or kdm. > > Hope this helps. > > Kenny > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
