Re: X server problems
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Chris Fury wrote:
> Braden N. McDaniel wrote:
> > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot
> > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up
> > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is
> > kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been
> > properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config?
>
> Eeeek! I had a simular problem with xdm recently... what I did was
> boot
> from the rescue disk (just like a normal install, no tricks), switch to
> the console (alt-F2),. mount my root partition, with etc on it, and then
> removed the file S99xdm (I think that's it) from /tempmount/etc/rc2.d
> (actually I made a backup copy of it, but it's just a link to
> ../init.d/xdm.)
>
> This link in /etc/rc2.d is what causes xdm to be launched on startup.
> Removing it from this directory will cause xdm NOT to be started on
> boot.
> You can then unmount your / partition, reboot, and you shouldn't have to
> worry about not being able to get to the prompt any more. You can run
> xdm manually from the prompt by simply typing xdm as root when you're
> ready.
To be less drastic...
chmod a-x /etc/init.d/xdm
or edit /etc/X11/config
anmd change the line "start-xdm" to "no-start-xdm"
-Steve
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