From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hagus.bright.net ([205.212.123.74]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16T2v0-0008NG-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:33:02 -0500 Received: from tward (woos-max1-cs-32.dial.bright.net [209.143.18.51]) by hagus.bright.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g0MFWwZ2008151 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:33:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002e01c1a35a$30e3bca0$0100a8c0@tward> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: Subject: runlevel 5 was Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:31:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi. I guess I confused a couple of you. However, here is the scoop. In distributions that are set to runlevel 5 out of the box such as, Red Hat, Kaldera, and Mandrake you waith until the xdm login box comes up. Then, you can do a alt+ctrl+f1, alt+ctrl+f2, etc to switch to a text login. Once you login you are in bash. However, if you want to drop into x for some reason one can alt+ctrl+f7 and drop into the xdm login, and log into x. Then, those commands will switch you back and forth. If the computer is just for yourself you can just switch it back to runlevel 3. If you have sighted members around who use it I find it better to leave it in runlevel 5, because they want their Windows environment on startup.