Eric wrote: > Hello all: > I am using Debian Potato, and recently installed the X Windows system.
It's the X Window system, or just X. Windows is a dirty word round here ;-) > However, I can no longer go back to the command line. I tried Exit, and the > other various exit/kill commands. I also tried Alt-Ctrl-F1. When I do this > the monitor goes out of frequency. I am absolutly positive that I set the > correct frequency in XConfig. Any ideas? Do you login at the console and then startx or do you have a display manager installed (graphical login) ? If you use startx then Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should kill X. If you have a display manager (xdm,gdm,kdm or wdm) installed but don't wish to always use X then edit /etc/inittab to change the default run level: # The default runlevel. id:3:initdefault: Remove the symlink to xdm,gdm,kdm or wdm from /etc/rc2.d/. Now you can boot to console only by passing the argument init 2 at boot time. Alternatively just uninstall your display manager. -- Simon Hepburn.
