Re: [Hampshire] Feisty - changing Graphics Card

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Feisty - changing Graphics Card

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:54:32AM +0100, James Ashburner wrote:
> Rob Malpass wrote:
>
> >What I need to do is boot, stop X from starting, dpkg-reconfigure to get
> >the correct settings, and gdm start (repeat until settings are correct)
> >but as I can't start X (or even login!) I'm a bit sunk.
>
> You could try:
>
> # telinit 3
>
> To drop to runlevel 3 which should kill off the X server


Not on any Debian-based system. Runlevels 2-5 are identical. Ubuntu
may have changed them, but I don't think they have.

Hugo.

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