On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:53:12AM -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > How can I turn xdm off so that I can directly boot into a console and and > then run startx to get to X? Hi, in slink, you have to uninstall xdm. In hamm, you have to add the line "no-start-xdm" to /etc/X11/xconfig. I don't use xdm. I always start X with xinit. So I can set the color depth to the value I need each time. Armin