Thanks Andrej I tried that but the X is coming up again (back to gdm) E > There is no such thing. By default in Debian (and it's spawns > like Ubunut) runlevels 2-5 have Gooey. You'll need to manually > stop X. (have a look at /etc//init.d ... I don't know how your > machine is set-up). > > > > > >