On Mon, 2005-18-07 at 16:49 +0000, philip wrote: > 1. My system currently boots straight into GDM rather than a standard console login prompt which I would prefer as a system admin. I will then manually launch XFree86 with 'startx'. How do I go about making this change. I have not bothered with GUIs up until now and do everything via SSH and the command prompt. > > 2. During the debian install it prompted me to specifiy my graphics card so I seleted 'nv'. However I have now looked at nvidia and they do their own driver which has I presume is better for my needs in terms of OpenGL support etc. Can I install this on Debian without messing up other files/settings. I can not install it at the moment until I disable GDM as Xfree86 is always running and the installer keeps saying exit X before installing the driver. > > Thanks in advance for any comments or replies. > I have only just joined the list and hope to repay everyone with my own answers to problems. In response to your questions: 1) You can disable this by either removing the gdm init script from run level 2 or (and probably preferable) removing the gdm pacakge: apt-get remove gdm You may also have xdm installed so you may want to remove that as well. It may indicate that you are going to remove an additional package, something like gnome-desktop, this should be safe as this package is a skeleton package for installing a working gnome desktop. 2) As for if it's safe to install the nvida driver. I would probably assume it would be. The easiest thing to do is try it out, make sure to save all files that you overwrite so that you can go back in necessary. I've done this with my Matrox G550 drivers. The only other thing to note is that if you do overwrite files you will probably need to redo the installation again if the package that owns those files is ever upgraded. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . monkey@monkey.homeip.net D). ((` http://monkey.homeip.net/ ( ) `
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