Need to disable gdm

[gottijr]

Yes. Ctrl-Alt-F1 and You're in tty1. Then try to stop gdm, once You're out of tty7 where You're running gdm. Can't stop gdm while in gdm...

I risking to look bad right now...

but i don't get anything with Ctrl-Alt-F1

it's not like something is changing

i'm in gdm - i should open a terminal? ... press Ctrl-Alt-F1 (should something change?). If i press Ctrl-Alt-F2 there should be a diff?

[zika]

I risking to look bad right now...

but i don't get anything with Ctrl-Alt-F1

it's not like something is changing

i'm in gdm - i should open a terminal? ... press Ctrl-Alt-F1 (should something change?). If i press Ctrl-Alt-F2 there should be a diff?

Ctrl-LeftAlt-F1.

[Crass Spektakel]

My problem is pretty closely related, I do not want to start gdm but get a useful text mode but keep the option to start gdm.

Starting grub with "text" instead of "quiet splash" made the splashscreen disappear but now I get a black screen and nothing else. No text mode login, just black all over.

If I then start gdm and kill it again then I get a beautiful textmode.

Any ideas?

[komputes]

Hi Crass,

What version of Ubuntu and what version of GRUB do you have installed? The output of the following commands will answer these questions:

$ lsb_release -a
$ dpkg -l | grep grub

[Crass Spektakel]

Hi Crass,

What version of Ubuntu and what version of GRUB do you have installed? The output of the following commands will answer these questions:

$ lsb_release -a
$ dpkg -l | grep grub

I decided to reinstall the final release before going deeper into detail. Now I have Lynx final, problem stays the same.

From what I found out the text console is actually there, just invisible. I can log in blindly and start gdm, works fine.

Checking out /var/log/syslog shows several pages of the following log message on every reboot, even without starting gdm:

May  2 17:53:36 boni kernel: [  600.520434] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH_NOTIFY - nSource: PATCH_EXCEPTION, nStatus: INVALID_STATE PROTECTION_FAULT
May  2 17:53:36 boni kernel: [  600.520460] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH_NOTIFY - Ch 0/3 Class 0x004a Mthd 0x0c08 Data 0xc97b00b0:0x00000000

and finally

May  2 17:53:36 boni kernel: [  600.520530] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 1 on vga encoder (output 0)

[Crass Spektakel]

May  2 17:53:36 boni kernel: [  600.520530] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 1 on vga encoder (output 0)

I found help at Freedesktop, testing right now:

The noaccel parameter is a Nouveau module parameter, so either pass it to the nouveau module on load (modprobe.conf), or if nouveau is built-in, nouveau.noaccel=1 on kernel command line. Your X uses the Vesa driver? That will screw up the card, if Nouveau is loaded. Either use Nouveau DRM with Nouveau DDX, or no Nouveau at all with Vesa DDX.