At 02:04 PM 09/14/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>killall xdm
>apt-get remove kdm
>apt-get install gdm (most likely xdm is removed anyway when you install gdm,
>but I wouldn't take any chances)
yeah, you don't to remove the kdm or xdm, install gdm is enough.
conflicts are handled automagically by debian.
>If you just want a shell, use the VC's, although you can set up the different
>runlevels just by deleting the entry in /etc/rcX.d that starts the process,
>where X is the runlevel. Of course, this might break some things later on
>down the line, though not too badly if you know how to fix it.
By default, Debian is set for 2-5 running X. This was a recent thread on
debian-ser or debian-devel (I forget which). The answer basically was
'yes, this should be changed, and will be at some point.' In fact, we
talked about it here on eug-lug too. because this:
> xdm or x becomes broken. If this x becomes broken your out of luck if
> > it's starting in X .
was taken care of by Branden, in that xdm will quit if it detects a problem.
Seth
