On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:18:55PM +0200, DSC Publishing, LLC wrote: > Good day; > > I just installed Stable-Potato, and then installed packages including > XFree86, and the C++ -written minimalist Window manager (sorry, I forgot > the name. It advertises a *nonwindoze* look and feel, and has a bar > across the bottom. > > Somehow, XDM also got installed. Which lends two problems. > > (1) I need to change the monitor specs. It won't let me do that, > because I am already in X, even as root. I tried renaming > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XDM as XEM, then restarting (it got me out for the > time being), and then redoing the setup.... but when I came back I > found that the 1024x768 SVGA I had installed didn't operate, and now all > I had was VGA. I had read the SVGA characteristics straight off my > Win98 system, so I'm pretty sure they are right.
If getting the monitor to sync is all you want, you might want to edit
/etc/X11/XF86Config by hand. The relevant lines are
HorizSync 30-<insert you monitor max here (the kHz value)>
VertRefresh 50-<insert the max Hz here>
For a complete configuration tool, try /usr/bin/xf86config
> (2) I don't want X to be automatic. I *like* text. How do I
> deconfigure XDM? I can see that it is running; I tried going to
> /etc/inittab and looking for the code that starts up X, but I didn't
> find any such code there.
as root run:
/usr/bin/apt-get remove xdm
(This is a FAQ and there are also other ways of doing it)
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