turning off GDM

Sean Horan sean at emvis.net
Thu Sep 29 16:59:44 MST 2005


Control-Alt-F2 to get to a console, log in as root, and run
	/etc/init.d/gdm stop

should kill all X services on vt7.

--sean

wagz211 at isp.com wrote:
> Hey I know this probably sounds like a dumb question but how do I turn the 
> graphical login manager GDM off temporarily so that I can install the NVIDIA 
> graphics drivers. Would really appreciate some  help. ps Im using debian with 
> a 2.6 kernel if that matters.
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