Cool - That'll solve it! I don't mind having to star XF86 manually to be honest. I rarely log out unless I need to run something in windows, so its about once a week if I'm unlucky :) On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:49, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > John Sampson wrote: > > >OK Sorry if I sound numb (this problem solving is new to me - Im pretty > >new the the OS) > >I notice GDM is loaded everytime I boot, is there an easy way to just > >disable this and have the command line start up perhaps edit the init > >file? > > > > John, > sorry but I can only help you with your second question... To boot in > text mode only , change the /etc/inittab file and change the line > id:5:initdefault: > to > id:3:initdefault: > > This will make the system start always at run level 3 and gdm and X wont > be loaded automatically. > > Pedro Macedo >