On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Scott Henderson wrote:

> >> Removing S99gdm is more of a hack.  The proper way to control this is to edit
> >> '/etc/inittab' and change the line reading "id:5:initdefault:" to
> >> "id:3:initdefault:" (where the 5 and 3 indicate the run levels.
> >
> >This works great on my Mandrake boxes, but runlevels
> >2 through 5 all include S99gdm on this Debian box.
> >Currently, the default runlevel is 2.
>
> Bob - USE your run levels.  Decide what you want to run, and set
> up a run level so it loads the programs you want.  Obviously,
> you'll leave 1,2, and 6 as is, but you can set up 3-5 how you
> want.  Choose one for X, one that doesn't load it, etc. You could
> use 5 for X if you want, since this is common for most distros,
> as far as I've seen.

Yes, that's what I'm doing. I removed S99gdm from
/etc/rc2.d. The problem is not with the meaning of
runlevels. The problem is with the X startup script
not returning the video card to text mode on exit.