Now (as October 2005) I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Testing Etch distribution, with kernel 2.6.8.
I do not want a graphical login on this notebook, just execute startx
if I need X. So I commented out from the line from /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp