On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:28, Thomas Sapp wrote: > How do I stop the GDM from starting up automatically? Can I disable it > long enough to log in as root and install an update to my video > drivers? I have tried pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and it just GDM is started (and restarted) by init, so to stop it you have 2 options. 1) Change runlevel to 3, by typing "telinit 3" as root. 2) Temporarily commenting out the starting of prefdm in /etc/inittab The first options is probably the best. If you log out of X first, you can do this from a virtual terminal (eg. CNT-ALT-F1). Cheers, Ben
