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   Subject: Re: 6.10 DT: How to exit Gnome and change to console mode?   
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   clay wrote:   
   > Tom Mueller wrote:   
   >> Hello Group,   
   >>   
   >> I want to exit Gnome and swich to pure console mode. How can I do    
   >> that? With SuSE/KDE there was a "shutdown > only console" mode, which    
   >> exited X-windows and turned to console mode. I can't find anything    
   >> similar with Ubuntu/Gnome. An alternative was to open a console window    
   >> and use the command "init 3", since this runlevel was configured as    
   >> console-only. But at Ubuntu it seems to be different. Could anybody    
   >> help me out please?   
   >>   
   >> Thanx   
   >> Tom    
   >    
   > sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop   
   >    
      
   Does this mean I can install nvidia drivers for example without using    
   automatix or easy ubuntu?   
      
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