On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:33:31AM +0000 or thereabouts, Colin Watson wrote: > Eddie Torres <veloct@veloct.net> wrote: > >On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:23:37 Ken Weingold wrote: > >> It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > >> want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > >> on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it goes > >> right back to the login screen. > > > >go into /etc/initab and the first line to 2 or 3 instead of 5. Do it as > >root. > > (/etc/inittab, by the way.) > > That's Red Hat and derived distributions, not Debian. Debian's default > runlevel is 2, and there are no distinct definitions for any of 2, 3, 4, > or 5; in other words, runlevel 5 isn't defined to be the "X" runlevel. > yes debian's default is 2. if you really want console on boot just remove /etc/rc2.d/S20gdm or /etc/rc2.d/S20xdm and you're all set! -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = 9DE1 5825 77B4 FF45 7485 D3EB DCCF DE48 09B6 4426 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who's watching the watchmen?"
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