Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

[Peter Hugosson-Miller <pehu@im.se>]

J Y wrote:

> Quoting Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk>:
>
> > On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 16:28, J Y wrote:
> >
> > > I re-installed deb3.0 and it looked great only two pkgs broke.
> > > BUT I screwed up and selected the wrong mouse type. Now I can
> > > login to a great looking desktop but I can't use it! :(
> > > There's a dialog box open at start up ( no big deal) but I can't
> > > alt+function key to a terminal/shell. If I could open a shell I
> > > could just run xconfig again. Does anyone know if there's some
> > > easy way out of this?? Thanks
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common (might be xfree86-server)
> >
> > Tom
>
>
> Thanks..yes I know the command to reconfigure the xserver & mouse. I
> just can't get a terminal window to open. Well I did actually in Gnome
> but there was a dialogue box in front of the shell and I couldn't see
> the terminal window. After hobbling about the desktop with an erratic
> mouse and then just the tab an arrow keys I must have done more damage
> to the system because now the keyboard doesn't work in debian either. It
> works fine in SuSe, (where I'm writing this from). I don't believe that
> one mistake means I need to to do yet another re-install.....oh well.
This might be a silly question, but did you try <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to get 
to a console window outside of Gnome? This works _always_ (at least it's 
never failed for me in 8 years of using Debian).

When you're done, you can <Alt><F7> back to the Gnome window, or even 
restart the X server from there by using /etc/init.d/gdm restart or 
whatever is appropriate for you.

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