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Re: How to prevent x startup



On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:11PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my
> keyboard is not being
> 
> properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I
> would like to stay 
> 
> at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my system
> automatically 
> 
> starts up gdm
> 
> How do I abort the startup of x?

well, you can force X to quite via "ctl-alt-backspace" but if
you're running a display manager, that'll just return you to
your graphical login.

try "ctl-alt-f1" and you'll be back at your console. (your X
display will still be at "ctl-alt-f7" if you want to get back to
it.) then you can tinker from there.

to see how to keep your display manager from taking over, see a
recent debian-user thread "Re: give me the command line -
REPHRASED".

-- 
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown
 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #19 from Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>
and Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
How do you determine WHICH NETWORK SERVICES ARE OPEN (active)?
Try "netstat -a | grep LISTEN". To see numeric values (instead
of the common names for services using a particular port) then
try "netstat -na" instead. For more info, look at "man netstat".
   Also try "lsof -i" as root. "man lsof" for details.

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...



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