RE: X server problems
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing
> <ctrl><alt><f1> once the xdm process started.
> -------------------------------------------------------
The problem is that when xdm cannot start, it keep retrying.
<ctrl><alt><f1> may get you to a console, but as soon as xdm
retries, gone again. Single user mode seems to be the only
way out, until editing the startup files.
>
> Braden N. McDaniel writes:
> > 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?
>
>
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