Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!
Your problem seems to be inability to get access to
your computer since "xdm" is taking you directly
into "X", from where the system blanks out.
Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards.In case
you manage to come out to console, immediately do
the following as root:
#update-rc.d -f xdm remove
This will remove all "xdm" related stuff from the
init scripts. Then REBOOT.
In case Ctrl-Alt-F10 does not work, the only option
is to boot through the rescue disk, mount your root
partition, go to the /etc directory and manually
remove the following:
/etc/rc0.d/K01xdm
/etc/rc1.d/K01xdm
/etc/rc2.d/S99xdm
/etc/rc3.d/S99xdm
/etc/rc4.d/S99xdm
/etc/rc5.d/S99xdm
/etc/rc6.d/K01xdm
>From then on you will be booting into console. Fix
your "X" configuration and continue.
In case you want xdm back, use update-rc.d again !
(Pl check the man)
HTH
USM Bish
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:19:27AM -0800, Jim Merante wrote:
> Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the
> boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows
> command?
>
> (BTW, if I have posted this on a non-newbie list, I
> apoloogize and I will seek help elsewhere)
>
> After I have configured X and go to run it, my monitor
> goes blank and the green light on the monitor turns to
> a yellow light (no signal).
>
> No problem, reboot and run xf86config again until I get
> the setting correct, right?
>
> Wrong. Everytime I boot after I have killed my screen,
> the OS skips right over the prompt and goes right into
> the blank screen.
>
> Now I have no doubt that this is my fault and perhaps
> even the fault of my vid card and I can live with
> having to rectify it.
>
> But I don't want to reinstall the system each time I
> change the config! I don't even mind going in to the
> file and changing things manually, if only I could get
> to a command prompt before my screen goes black!
>
> There has got to be a keystroke combination that will
> prompt the boot commands and allow me to skip the load
> X windows command.
>
> Right...?
> Right.......?
>
>
> Please help,
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Jim Merante
> Utility Trailer Mfg.
> Dealer Information Systems Administrator
> 626-854-7341
> jmerante@utm.com
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