From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from www.hittsjunk.net ([74.93.63.217] helo=blackbox.hittsjunk.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IANRX-0007xc-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:04:39 -0400 Received: from kenny by blackbox.hittsjunk.net with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IANRw-0002ml-PK for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:05:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:05:04 -0500 From: Kenny Hitt To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: New Debian installation and confused. Message-ID: <20070716100504.GA3231@hittsjunk.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000801c7c744$f955c5c0$c26e1246@danmint> <20070716021207.GA22213@localhost.localdomain> <001401c7c78b$974dfa40$c26e1246@danmint> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001401c7c78b$974dfa40$c26e1246@danmint> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:04:40 -0000 Hi. First question, do you plan to use Gnome? If not, you can remove some packages and get the system back to a text login. You need to remove the package called the display manager. It is probably gdm, but it might also be xdm or kdm. Try typing: apt-get remove gdm as root. If it succeeds, the next time you boot you will be at tty1 in text mode. If it fails, try running it with xdm or kdm. Hope this helps. Kenny