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Re: default run level



On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:17:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:26:58AM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
> > This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough information
> > in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a graphical
> > environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the new Nvidia display
> > drivers for X. After the install, I want to re-enable booting into X.
> > Does this make more sense?
> 
> Oh, then all you need to do is Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in there, stop the
> display manager (/etc/init.d/<whateveritis>dm stop), do the install, and
> then restart the display manager. No need to worry about what starts up
> at boot time.

When I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 on my Woody/KDE system all I get is a blank monitor. No login prompt, nothing,
just a black blank screen. What's wrong?


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Thanks  [;-)



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