Phillip Remaker wrote:
3) (minor) Since GDM was installed and running by default, I had no way to get a nice, dumb terminal to work out config issues (since the window manager and mouse were both hoarked). I wish there was an easy, keyboard-based way to kill gdm and drop back to a terminal in the case of serious X issues. That would have saved me the trouble of so many rescue disk reboots.
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the first (text-based) virtual terminal. Then if you want to stop gdm, "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" (it'll start again on next reboot, so you could run update-alternatives or rename the gdm script (or symlink) or uninstall gdm to more permanently stop it.
You could've also done a "linux single" at the LILO prompt to boot into single-user mode, and bypassed gdm that way.
Kent
