> > But how would i start it without X? > > It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's > already some kind of gui there. >
You could try something like this to kill X from starting mv S04xdm s04xdm (depending on whether you use gdm or xdm of course :) then init wont boot the gui, I'm pretty sure that works anyway > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:26:15 -0700 > Subject: Re: System crashes for no apparent reason > From: dan.h...@gmail.com > To: karl.jorgen...@nice.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen > <karl.jorgen...@nice.com> wrote: > > > An experiment which may exclude the video drivers from the equation: > > Try NOT starting X ? If it still crashes without X ever being > > started, then it points towards the problem being elsewhere... > > Hi Karl, > > A real dumb question for you: > > I also have a sort of crashey/freezey system (although presumably not > exactly the same as Marc's). > > But how would i start it without X? > > It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's > already some kind of gui there. > > I don't suppose there's some kind of boot option i can set because > X runs on top of the kernel, but i suppose that somewhere, somehow > i can tell the system that the next time it comes up to not bring up X? > > TIA for any info. > > dan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/caophizkaotxk_-v1b1ypo6zkum46p1xknxnw_4ydvhq_vyr...@mail.gmail.com >
