New Debian installation and confused.

[Dan Murphy]

No, I don't plan to use gnome, and the idea you gave me about removing the
gdm package seems to have fixed it.
Thanks Kenny.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: New Debian installation and confused.


> Hi.
>
> First question, do you plan to use Gnome?
>
> If not, you can remove some packages and get the system back to a text
login.
>
> You need to remove the package called the display manager.  It is
probably gdm, but it might also be xdm or kdm.
>
> Try typing:
>
> apt-get remove gdm
>
> as root.  If it succeeds, the next time you boot you will be at tty1 in
text mode.
> If it fails, try running it with xdm or kdm.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>           Kenny
>
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