Display problem

[Peter van Rossum]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:11:02PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> # /etc/init.d/gdm stop
> 
> to turn off the Gnome Display Manager (assuming that's the graphical
> login you're running). Next I really recommend uninstalling or disabling
> gdm (sorry, don't have a quick procedure for how) 

update-rc.d remove gdm

to turn off gdm without actually uninstalling it

update-rc.d defaults gdm

if you ever want it back again

> until X works reliably
> again.
> 
> To start X manually, log in to the terminal and enter the command
> 'startx'.

Peter
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