RE: How to prevent x startup
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 automatically starts up gdm
How do I abort the startup of x?
>>> Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
Look at the archives of a few days ago ;).
For example, if xdm is starting up then this is what I did:
# update-rc.d -f xdm remove
The problem with that is when you update X (apt-get dist-upgrade, for
example) again it will probably get reinstalled.
You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it
might
also get reinstalled on update.
>>> David Turetsky
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?
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