On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 01:30, benfoley wrote: > depending on whether it starts from xdm, gdm, or kdm, you can run > > update-rc.d <whichever?dm> remove > > when you reboot, you'll have a console prompt. to run x from there, use > startx.
No need to reboot. Just go to a console (Alt-Ctrl F1) and do as root '/etc/init.d/?dm stop' (with ? = x, k, or g) -- I did not vote for the Austrian government