Re: getting to runlevel 3 after X crash?

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

oliver audiated,

> Unless your /etc/inittab is very different from mine, `telinit 3' will 
> have no effect at all.  In Debian, X is not normally dependent on the
> run-level.

> There are two ways to stop xdm.  The simple one is to press Ctrl-R at the

...

It's not stopping X that's the problem; I can get that accomplished.  
The problem is that after X crashes, whether run from xdm or startx, it 
corrupts something badly enough that I can't start X without rebooting.

A few weeks ago, it was suggested that dropping to runlevel 3, then 
returning to multiuser, might renitialize whatever happens.

>If the screen is still disabled after this, it might be possible to use
>some svgalib program to set it back to a sane state.  However, this is

hmm, that might do it.  Hack the X source (!ack!) to call this function 
when instantiating . . . *shudder*  

hmm, maybe I better buckle down and try installing the 3.3.3 binary 
that I downloaded . . .

thanks

rick


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