only suggestion: debian has many own mailing lists and archives as well. have a look there - maybe you find a solution. regards~andreas > -----Original Message----- > From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On > Behalf Of C. Brewer > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:05 AM > To: newbie@XFree86.Org > Subject: Re: Two trivial problems > > > Boy oh boy!! I'd like to make some slight adjustments to Oisin's > suggestions. While technically accurate, just a little off enough > to confuse. > > Point A: Ctrl+Alt+BS will drop you back to a console, from > startx. Since our injured party says he/she cannot clearly see > the login screen, we must assume a *dm, i.e.,k-x-gdm. From there, > it will take a mess o' C-A-BS' to dump the *dm. > > Point B: The inittab switch is different for Debian, the distro > in question. Debian, last I checked, defaults to init 2 > regardless of environment. meaning it doesnt have X in its own > runlevel hogwash laid down by certain distros based on one > sporting a brightly colored fedora. > This leaves two choices, either switch inittab to a runlevel > without *dm, which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist in Debian, you > can check them, I don't run Debian anymore, won't start a > flamewar over why, but I don't, so I can't check it myself. > > You're going to have do a update-rc.d -f *dm remove, to diable > automtically booting into X. But hell, if all you want is a > console, try Ctrl-Alt-F1-F6 and you should get it. > > I know it was long and boring, but you could have just submitted > your XFConfig-4 file, someone would have spotted your bad line, I'll bet:) > -- > Chuck Brewer > Registered Linux User #284015 > > Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. > > This entire domain and all associated e-mail addresses are located in > the State of Washington,and sending mail to addresses at this domain is > subject to the provisions of the Revised Code of Washington. > > _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
