Hi Thanasis, on Friday, 2007-09-28 at 22:41:52, you wrote: > How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes > (during the boot phase)? Have a look at the depend() function in /etc/init.d/xdm. It specifies what should be started before xdm, so adding agetty to an "after" line in this function should do it. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665