How do you boot to console instead of GUI?

[Bam]

I'm slowly moving from MDK to Debian through a knoppix HD install. I am running dual monitors with two Nvidia cards. When I choose to log out & log in as a different user, X locks up & I have to do a hard reboot. I had this same problem in mandrake & solved it by setting it up to boot to console then typing "startx" (instead of disabling DRI & losing my openGL). How do I do this in knoppix? I edited my knoppix inittab to runlevel 3, but it still booted to the GUI log in manager.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[horo]

Hi,

the german forum give an advice:
http://www.linuxtag.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=anwendungen;action=display;num=10660 42739;start=3

translated:

#start KDM only in runlevel 5

update-rc.d -f kdm remove
update-rc.d kdm stop 1 0 1 2 3 4 6 .
ln -s ../init.d/kdm /etc/rc5.d/S99kdm

#change runlevel to 3

perl -pi -e 's/(id):\d:(initdefault:)/\1:3:\2/' /etc/inittab

Ciao Martin

[Bam]

Thanks for the response horo...will give that a try.