Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
Hi Colin et al,
I'm not running LILO. When I want to run Debian, I use a boot disk from startup.
*No commands at all* are accepted by Xfree86 on my machine, including none of the three-fingered salutes & equivalents. I have not been able to log into another console.
The guy I bought the distribution from suggested that I must have configured Slink to start Xfree86 at boot-up. Obviously this was a huge mistake on my part but as a novice user, how was I to know that.?
Now it shuts me out.
Brian
Date sent: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:47:02 +0100
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: Brian Swale <bj@caverock.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:09:20PM +1200, Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> Xfree86 takes control right from the time Debian boots - before I can
> enter my user-name and password.
Yes, this is quite normal. Try 'linux init=/bin/sh' at the LILO prompt
to boot into nothing but a shell, then 'mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm
/etc/rc2.d/s99xdm' (replacing xdm with whatever display manager is in
use). That will disable the display manager.
> Sometimes it lets me enter them under its screen; then it accepts no
> other command. The mouse is not visible.
I'm still surprised that Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't switch to a virtual
console. Can you just confirm for me that you've tried that?
--
Colin Watson
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