Hi Jon,
I did not get what you meant and what you wanted to know, but the following 
might be of help:

Try boot from "boot text" which is the second option in grub;
Use cde-login instead of gdm to drop to console (I saw you already did that).

Hope it helps.
Aaron

On 04/29/09 08:41, Jon Strabala wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an issue with the X server not cleanly shutting down on either an 
> "init 0" or an "init 6" or a "shutdown/restart/reboot form the GUI"
> 
> I can use the cde-login menu to select a "command line login" and it gos to 
> my laptops "console text mode" cleanly.  But when I use the GUI as indicated 
> in he first paragraph or the init scripts the screen goes completely black 
> with some flickering snow on the uppermost line.
> 
> Is there some way I can adjust things (service dependancy or a legacy rc 
> script) to
> get the screen into a clean "comand line" like state on reboots or shutdowns.
> 
> I tinkered with the following (-t is temporary until net reboot). 
> 
>    svcadm disable -t svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default
>    svcadm restart svc:/system/console-login:default
> 
> Once it seemed to work, clean console text, (when I disabled/enabled/disabled 
> the cde-login a few time) but it did not seem to do anything other than 
> "steal the console".  
> 
> I guess I want to now what the GUI's cde-login actions of "logout" and  then 
> selecting "command line login" does and can I add a similar set of calls (via
> scripts or something) in the normal shutdown scripts.
> 
> Occurs on my laptop is a G70-250US (HP) but works on other hardware.
> 
> # uname -a
> SunOS binky 5.11 snv_111 i86pc i386 i86pc
> 
> # prtdiag | head -2
> System Configuration: Hewlett-Packard HP G70 Notebook PC
> BIOS Configuration: Hewlett-Packard F.32 11/20/2008
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jon Strabala

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