Thanks Andre and Nathan, In fact, Andre's suggestion of adding text to the boot options just works (so i made another menu entry in my grub, with just the word 'text' added to the options).
And . . . like magic . . . it comes up as text. (So i didn't have to mess with anything in /etc/rc.d) The only thing unsatisfactory is that my caps-lock is gone (normally i like to map caps-lock to control, but it just doesn't seem to function at all in this text mode). However, hopefully if i can isolate my problem then i won't have to deal with it too much. Thanks again!! dan On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Nathan D'elboux <naf...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> But how would i start it without X? >> >> It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's >> already some kind of gui there. >> > > You could try something like this to kill X from starting > > mv S04xdm s04xdm (depending on whether you use gdm or xdm of course :) > > > then init wont boot the gui, I'm pretty sure that works anyway > > > >> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:26:15 -0700 >> Subject: Re: System crashes for no apparent reason >> From: dan.h...@gmail.com >> To: karl.jorgen...@nice.com >> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen >> <karl.jorgen...@nice.com> wrote: >> >> > An experiment which may exclude the video drivers from the equation: >> > Try NOT starting X ? If it still crashes without X ever being >> > started, then it points towards the problem being elsewhere... >> >> Hi Karl, >> >> A real dumb question for you: >> >> I also have a sort of crashey/freezey system (although presumably not >> exactly the same as Marc's). >> >> But how would i start it without X? >> >> It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's >> already some kind of gui there. >> >> I don't suppose there's some kind of boot option i can set because >> X runs on top of the kernel, but i suppose that somewhere, somehow >> i can tell the system that the next time it comes up to not bring up X? >> >> TIA for any info. >> >> dan >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/caophizkaotxk_-v1b1ypo6zkum46p1xknxnw_4ydvhq_vyr...@mail.gmail.com >> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOphiz+MoALXO-499w8rdzi2cQ5M=6vjeQ=q0qnnxgp-1wh...@mail.gmail.com
