Re: install
I followed the instructions below. When I entered
"linux single" at the boot prompt, I ended up with a
blank screen and frozen computer.
I might add, Debian "potato" didn't work for me in the
graphical mode because it only accepted the lowest
resolution, 640x400 (I think), and everything was so
big that it was useless. With it, I could get into the
text mode which I cannot do with woody.
For the record, RedHat gives me no trouble
Sidney Brooks wrote:
>Although one person answered the message below, I
>never saw it posted. In case something strange
>happened, I am trying it again.
>
>
Rodney D. Myers responded to it.
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>I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything
>went smoothly until I tried to use it after the
>installation. All I get is a blank screen and a
frozen
>computer. I think that my problem is a video card
that
>linux does not like, S3 Pro-Savage KM133. Any
>suggestions as to how I can make things work. I
cannot
>use the text mode, therefore I cannpt change any
>files.
>
>
>
Does Ctrl-Alt-F2 not switch you to a workable
text-based console? From
there you should be able to repair whatever's wrong.
Otherwise you can, at the "boot:" prompt (assuming
you're using lilo
and
not grub, etc), enter "linux single" to boot into
single-user mode,
where you can then repair what's wrong.
Once at a text-based console, the first thing to do is
to disable the
automatic startup of X. You're probably using a
graphical session
manager, either xdm, wdm, kdm, or gdm. There are
several ways to do
this; probably the way I would do it is to temporarily
put the single
line "exit 0" as the first executable line in the
session manager
start-up script. This script will be in "/etc/init.d",
and will have a
symlink in "/etc/rc2.d". The script in "/etc/init.d"
will probably be
named "xdm", "wdm". "kdm". or "gdm". The script in
"/etc/rc2.d" will
have a "S" and a number in front of the script name,
like "S99kdm" or
"S98gdm". You can disable the graphical session for
the current boot
only by running this script with the "stop" flag, like
so:
"/etc/init.d/kdm stop" (which you'll want to do
_before_ adding "exit
0"
to the script).
Now run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and play
with the X
settings,
and then try starting X with "startx". Once you get a
working system,
you can remove the "exit 0" and then run the script
with the "start"
option and see if the graphical session manager (GUI
logon screen)
works.
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