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   From: clay    
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   Subject: Re: 6.10 DT: How to exit Gnome and change to console mode?   
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   MCR wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >    
      
   yes   
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