Gnome Display Manager (Resolved)

[Thomas Sapp]

Thanks to all for your replies.  The switching of run levels was the
answer to my problem.  

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 18:14, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:04, Shawn Mahon wrote:
> 
> > Edit your /etc/inittab to say this
> 
> A simpler method, well two actually. 
> 
> 1) at boot, from the grub screen press a, this will let you edit the
> kernel parameters, add a 3 to the end of the list and boot into text
> mode.
> 
> or:
> 
> 2) press ctrl-alt-F1, this will swap to a text screen, log in as root.
> at the prompt type telinit 3 and press enter. this will shut down all X
> sesions. install your drivers, then type telinit 5 which will restart X
> and gdm.
> 
> just to be safe, after changing your X config, type startx and make sure
> it works before doing telinit 5.  
> 
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> Rob Brown-Bayliss
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Thanks,
Tom Sapp
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