Re: runlevel 3 for a console login?

2002-07-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gale" == Gale Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gale> I assume this is the runlevel for a command-line login in Gale> debian, as that is a standard across other distros. But my Gale> system keep booting into a GUI. Debian starts the GUI login, if one is installed, in all multi

runlevel 3 for a console login SOLVED

2002-07-12 Thread Gale Stafford
Got it working now! Thanks to all who responded with ideas. I did a update-rc.d -f xdm remove and rebooted, but found it loading a GUI-based login screen. So I looked in my /etc/rc?.d directories, and noticed I had the other window managers gdm and kdm still in there. So I did a update-rc.

Re: runlevel 3 for a console login?

2002-07-12 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:50:22PM -0500, Gale Stafford wrote: > I want debian to boot up and give me a command-line login instead of the GUI > login screen. My /etc/inittab runlevel setting reads > > id:3:initdefault: > > I assume this is the runlevel for a command-line login in debian, as that

Re: more on cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
> > 1. After booting up I can use xcdroast after I > load the module ide-scsi with modprobe. Everything > else needed gets loaded automatically. Then, if > I want to mount and read a cdrom I can do it, but > only aftet unloading ide-scsi. When you load the ide-scsi module, the cdrom is not any

Re: runlevel 3 for a console login?

2002-07-12 Thread Erich Schubert
You probably won't need to change anything in the inittab, all you need to do is to make rc.d terminate your login manager on runlevel 3. this is controlled by the symlinks in /etc/rc3.d/ (S99gdm, S99kdm, S99wdm etc. - depending on your login manager) I had setup something like that. Worked like a

Re: runlevel 3 for a console login?

2002-07-12 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Gale" == Gale Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gale> Hi All, I want debian to boot up and give me a command-line login Gale> instead of the GUI login screen. The GUI login is provided by xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm/etc. Most likely one of the first three. Do an "ls /etc/rc5.d" and you should see

runlevel 3 for a console login?

2002-07-12 Thread Gale Stafford
Hi All, I want debian to boot up and give me a command-line login instead of the GUI login screen. My /etc/inittab runlevel setting reads id:3:initdefault: I assume this is the runlevel for a command-line login in debian, as that is a standard across other distros. But my system keep booting i

Re: more on cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread steve thompson
Thanks everyone who advised on cd writing. That solved the X server problem from root, so that I was able to setup and use xcdroast for copying and creating CDs. Now regarding the associated module management, I have the following situation: 1. After booting up I can use xcdroast after I load t

Re: cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joe Wreschnig said: > Two nitpicks; first, this is insecure if anyone else uses your system. > The proper mode (IMO) is 4750, and then add the users you want to burn > CDs to the cdrom group; only they'll be able to run the binary. > > Secondly, that's not the sticky b

Re: D-Link DFE-680TXD CardBus Network Card on a Sony VIAO PCG-F450 -- boot problem

2002-07-12 Thread Alexander Poquet
Marc, Thank you very much for the pointer -- unfortunately, this does not appear to be the problem, my interfaces is the same as yours, except that mine uses dhcp rather than a static ip. Further investigation has caused me to revise the nature of the problem somewhat. I had said that the proble

Re: cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 09:23, Stephen Gran wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/cdrecord > -rwsr-xr-x1 root cdrom 181128 Jun 21 23:27 > /usr/bin/cdrecord > > Note the sticky bit - IIRC, as root, chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdrecord, and > then chown root:cdrom(burner, whatever group ma

Re: cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, steve thompson said: > > I am trying to get cd writing working on a Fujitsu > Lifebook P-2040, which has an internal removal > cd-rw/dvdrom. > > First, does anyone recommend any particular cd burning > software? > > I installed xcdroast, but have not been able to s

Re: cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Nyk Tarr
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:21:07PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > steve thompson wrote: > > >I am trying to get cd writing working on a Fujitsu > >Lifebook P-2040, which has an internal removal > >cd-rw/dvdrom. > > > >First, does anyone recommend any particular cd burning > >software? > >

Re: D-Link DFE-680TXD CardBus Network Card on a Sony VIAO PCG-F450 -- boot problem

2002-07-12 Thread Boris Duerner
Hi, This is what helped me - open /etc/network/interfaces - Find the line starting with auto. - if this line contains your ethernet device, remove it - on my system the file looks like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 143.52.70.216 broadcast 143.52.70.25

Re: cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce milieu de nuit étoilée du vendredi 12 juillet 2002, vers 04:13, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > solution: there are many. > - use xauth: as root "xauth merge $(USER'S HOME)/.Xauthority" (or > something like that). This gives root the correct "magic cookie", > which it use