Re: Help! How not to start X ?
thank you all soooo much for the respose.
I have Debian Package installed on my Compaq Armada 1110 P75 good old notebook.
I even got my mouse work by recreating a symlink mouse to psaus. Since the bad X
keeps "flashing back" every other second or so, and renaming S99xdm rc?.d failed to
work, I removed xdm from dselect.
But now, my screen keeps flashing blank every other 5 minutes and at the end of
each interval, I got the message:
INIT: id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
it is really annoying. where is this x-respawning initiated? I want to stop it.
thank you
Ben
Heather wrote:
> > In a message dated 3/14/00 4:14:08 PM Central Standard Time,
> > esper@usinternet.com writes:
> >
> >> Debian doesn't use runlevels to control whether X starts or not. (Given
> >> that this message is being distributed by the debian-laptop list and Ben
> >> specifically stated that it was a fresh Debian install, I doubt that he's
> >> running Red Hat...)
> >
> > I believe a more accurate statement would be that Debian doesn't use the same
> > run levels as RedHat when determining whether or not to start X up at boot
> > time. Please correct me if I'm wrong (I don't have my Debian machine in
> > front of me at the moment) but a runlevel of 1 (and possibly 2?) will not
> > start X.
> >
> > -Jay
>
> Correct to my knowledge; 2 doesn't, it's the rough equivalent of redhat's 3.
> What he should have said was, "Debian doesn't use *inittab* to control whether
> X starts or not. ..."
>
> Which redhat does. Look for something like S99kdm in your /etc/rc5.d/
> directory. My fave thing to do is create a subdir in each runlevel branch
> named "disabled" - it doesn't start with S or K, it's self documenting, and
> it's a nice place to move the precious symlink while you ffigure out what
> sort of whanging you need to do on X to make it behave itself.
>
> And much less drastic than purging xdm, kdm or whichever xdmcp software you
> were going to use.
>
> * Heather
>
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