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Posted: April 27 2006,06:52 QUOTE
I'm having some problems with my graphics card which I can only solve in text mode (once it starts up X the text-mode display is also ruined). When you log in, DSL automatically starts up the X server with the last known settings.

I was thinking: why not allow the user to cancel the graphical login with a message like: 'Press <Esc> to cancel X-Server startup.' which would appear after login. Cancelling the X-Server startup would simply put you into text-mode. This message would appear for about 3 seconds after which it would continue starting up the X-Server.
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Posted: April 27 2006,10:00 QUOTE
I think you can boot into text mode by writing "dsl 2" (without quotes) at the "boot:"-prompt.
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Posted: April 27 2006,12:26 QUOTE
Or you change the login manager. I don't know, where you can find the configuration in DSL, but normally you can do this in /etc/rc.conf.

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Posted: April 27 2006,15:14 QUOTE
/home/dsl/.bash_profile is the reason X is automatically started in DSL.  You can either do as skaos suggested or edit .bash_profile.  With the boot option you are logged in as root, so you should probably "su - dsl" after you get X configured properly.

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