Re: How to boot without GUI
On Monday 08 June 2015 10:02:47 Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:54:09 +0800
>
> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800
> > >>
> > >> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> <snip>
> > >>>
> > >>> > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI
> > >>> > stuff, and drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the
> > >>> > nVidia driver, etc., just type startx.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > B
> > >>>
> > >>> I tried that,and got no response, so I assume that it is not
> > >>> enabled.
> > >>>
> > >>> How do I enable it?
> > >>
> > >> setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
> > >>
> > >> Petter
> > >
> > > Thank you for that.
> > >
> > > However, whilt that apparently enabled the <CTRL><ALT><BACSPACE>
> >
> > Plurry keyboards!
> >
> > Whilst that combination was apparently enabled, the effect of that
> > combination keypress was to take the computer to a different state of
> > xwindows, and, not to disable xwindows, so the combination keypress
> > did not have the desired effect.
>
> You need to be clearer. Did it drop you back to the display manager?
> Stop that manually, like has been explained elsewhere in this thread. If
> no display manager is running, and you had started X with startx or
> xinit, X should be killed by that keyboard shortcut.
>
> > Maybe nVidia is simply designed to not work with Linux...
>
> They do have a reputation of not being very open-source friendly, but
> other than that it works fine for a lot of people. I prefer AMD,
> though.
I have a prorietary NVidia driver working in Wheezy. It wasn't too
problematic.
Lisi
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