[wellylug] another one / Nvidia

[Ian Sterling]

You can also use the update-rc.d app to remove X from the runlevels
altogether... but this is messier than Richard's suggestion.

--Ian...

On 1/16/07, Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:43 +1300, E.Chalaron wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Try `/etc/init.d/gdm stop`.
>
> If you want to reboot and not have it start, my preference is to
> edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager, and comment it out. In fact, you
> just need to not have any display manager in there - any other garbage
> is fine, since all the display manager init scripts just check for
> themselves in that file, and ignore anything else.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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