Re: How to boot without GUI
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.
Maybe nVidia is simply designed to not work with Linux...
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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