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   Subject: Re: 6.10 DT: How to exit Gnome and change to console mode?   
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   clay wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   Thanks!  You know these little nuggets of knowledge are invaluable,  If    
   I had known how to do it I would not have sodded around with Automatix2.    
     I am surprised that 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop' wasn't mentioned in    
   the Ubuntu docs.  It is after all Ubuntu's reputation to be easy to use    
   and by default all Ubuntu flavours, so this minor yet important omission    
   is surprising!   
      
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