Run sax2 logged in as root. There should be an option in there to
set whether the display manager is on or not by default at boot.
SuSE moves default settings in /etc around a bit more compared to other
distros, but a possible alternative is to look for something similar to
the following information in the file /etc/inittab (this example is not
from a SuSE box, though it might look exactly the same, at least the
instructions if not the actual config line itself also; NOTE: edit this
file only if sax2 and yast - mentioned below - don't give you the
option to make this change; SuSE almost seems to punish a user who
forgoes the GUI/TUI route without knowing very well how SuSE changed
the locations of things in /etc and /etc/sysconfig/*):
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# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:
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SuSE's default runlevel line might look different than the above, but
the import part of it is the numeric value after 'id:'. If this
is set to '3', change it to '5', as explained in the file just above
the line. NOTE: There may be a default in SuSE's config files
managed by sax2. BTW earlier versions of SuSE included a TUI yast
you can also run as root in text mode. Type yast (and hit the tab
key twice, to see if the *real* command to use is yast2; its been a
while since I've had to this from command line, back to version 8.2 at
least) ONLY IF the answer does not lie with sax2.
PS: To work in X, use startx to start X from runlevel 3
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Ben