Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, John W. M. Stevens wrote:
> Excuse? I don't get you . . . didn't you just say above that "Ctl-Alt-F2
> gets me an open console"?
Yes, because I rid myself of the accursed xdm.
> > because (at least as it installed on my box) S??xdm was in _every_
> > rc?.d directory.
>
> That controls whether or not XDM (or gdm or kdm) gets started up,
> but does not control which virtual terminal the X server is running
> on.
>
> I assume that your X server is using VT7 . . . right?
>
> Note that xdm and siblings are not the X server itself.
Exactly. So whether X is itself on tty7 doesn't mean that xdm isn't on
tty2-6, right?
> > RH behavior is better here, imo, because it makes
> > runlevel 5 the xdm runlevel, so you can switch runlevels and escape
> > xdm.
>
> To escape xdm, simply:
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop
I found
apt-get remove xdm
rather more to my liking!
Patrick
--
Patrick Wiseman
pwiseman@mindspring.com
Linux user #17943
*Google First, Ask Later*
Reply to: