to enable qingy logins, you'll have to change these lines in /etc/initab tty1:linux:/sbin/agetty /dev/tty1 9600 tty2:linux:/sbin/agetty /dev/tty2 9600 tty3:linux:/sbin/agetty /dev/tty3 9600 and replace them with: tty1:linux:/usr/sbin/qingy tty1 tty2:linux:/usr/sbin/qingy tty2 tty3:linux:/usr/sbin/qingy tty3 remember, qingy is beta software! better leave the rest to agetty. also, to get a normal login hit in qingy