On Tuesday 26 August 2003 14:58, Sarah Forbes wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot > process so that I can try and find the cause of the issue. I cannot > disable x windows from the command line because I can never get in.
This sort of thing is one of the reasons I always use a text login. IIRC, what I did to prevent X starting was the brute-force method of unlinking all the kdm, gdm, xdm links in /etc/rc2.d. That should do it, if no more elegant approach is suggested. > > If you have any clues as to what might be causing my keyboard to disable > in the first place, I would be very grateful to hear them. That'll need someone more expert than me... HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
