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From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: New Debian installation and confused.
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:56:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716155633.GA24231@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070716100504.GA3231@hittsjunk.net>

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Kenny, or anyone else who knows, how is it that the default run level
in /etc/inittab was still 2, but gdm/kdm/xdm started up anyway? I
thought that run level 2 meant that the system was supposed to boot
into text mode, and that the gui login managers weren't supposed to
start up.

Greg


On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 05:05:04AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 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
> 
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Dan Murphy
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Dan Murphy
   ` Dan Murphy
     ` Kenny Hitt
       ` Dan Murphy
       ` Gregory Nowak [this message]
         ` Chuck Hallenbeck
         ` Gaijin
           ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Gaijin
               ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Gaijin
       ` Gaijin
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