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Hi, If I am going to use software speech in gnome using orca or lsr do I
need gdm?  If I want to reinstall the rc.2 link what command would I
run?On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jan Buchal wrote:

> >>>>> "NG" == Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com> writes:
>
>     NG> Hi, I have my system going into run level 2 but still X starts.
>     NG> I would like to make X not start on system boot as I like to
>     NG> have the system come up in text only mode then have the option
>     NG> to start X later if I choose. What is the easiest way on etch to
>     NG> stop the X server from running on boot?
>
> You system probably start gdm, so you can remove startup link from rc.d
> directories with this command:
>
> update-rc.d -f gdm remove
>
> You can still start gdm by hand of course with /etc/init.d/gdm start or
> if you don't need gdm then you can start X direct with startup script
> startx.
>
> Best.
>
>