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Re: How to boot without GUI



On Friday 29 May 2015 10:04:47 Curt wrote:
> On 2015-05-29, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> > On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to
> >>> > run completely without X?
> >>>
> >>> Runlevel 1 is single-user/minimal mode.
> >>
> >> Yes, I know.  But as I (mis?)understood it, the purpose was to do a
> >> specific piece of administartion with X not running.  For which runlevel
> >> 1 would hopefully be enough.
> >
> > Oh I didn't understand anything in that way.  I thought the desire
> > expressed was to start the graphical environment from the console (I
> > believe there was a mention of'startx').
> >
> >> Lisi
>
> I mean I understood the OP's desire was to start his GUI in a definitive
> way, as a matter of course, not as a one-shot deal, from the console.

He wants to install a video driver, and needs to do so with X not running.  

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startx was mentioned by someone else as a means of getting back to X after 
installing the driver.

Lisi


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