Brian York wrote: >Do i need to repeat my self i want my computer to start up normaly with >graphical login. Downloading the xstat would be more trouble than just using >the terminal login and typing xstart. > I gave you a couple of alternatives in my post, not just Xtart.
The point is, you don't really need to stop X to do console work. You can either start from the console all the time or you can start from X. If you don't want X to come back after you logout.... Ok to just stop X bring up an terminal window, use su to become root ps ax | grep X look at the list and find the process id of the Xserver, then kill -9 (number you got from the list) and X will die immediately, leaving you in an interesting state. ============================== You have to change the runlevel to 3 instead of 5 for a proper shutdown of X It is _theoretically_ possible to stop X if you change the last line of /etc/inittab to prevent the respawning of the graphical login--say change it to "telinit 3" after the colon, but then getting back into X could become problematic. =============================== I wrote Xtart for your situation, and it (an old version) is on your CD, but basically there is no way to stop X (uncatastrophically) without changing runlevel, and doing that is not without hazards. So you have the information. If a 2k download is too much for you, just use the old one, on your install CDs since 8.1. Civileme >
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
