[plug] Debian problems...

[Andrew Howell]

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:01:33AM +0800, Christian wrote:
> At 23:40 23/11/98 +0800, you wrote:
> >Hey, I've installed Debian 2.0, or rather Christian has. It seemed to
> >install smoothly, but when I start debian now it runs up till the login
> >prompt then flashes and will not allow keyboard input. 
> >
> >Christian, perhaps there are some details I'm missing...
> >
> Yeah, there are actually. :)
> 
> When it was installing xdm, it asked if I wanted to use it and I said "yep"
> to which it tried to start it and the result I got was lots of screen
> flickering and no way to get back to a console.  The keyboard didn't lock
> cause I could still ctrl+alt+del.
> 
> I can get back into the system via single-user mode but I'm not quite sure
> of why xdm is doing this and also the best way of temporarily disabling it.
>  I didn't spend much time fiddling with it however.

quick way is to edit /etc/X11/config and comment out the start-xdm line

or move /etc/init.d/xdm to /etc/init.d/xdm.nostart

Andrew

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Andrew Howell
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