Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> Dave Walker escribió:
> >> That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1.
> >> Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose???
>
> >>
> If you don't want this to happen then you should use gdm or xdm or kdm,
> then you just start gdm and terminal 1 is free ;-)

Or just append an ampersand to your startx command, as in "startx &".
You'll still get messages on VT1, but at least you'll have a normal
prompt available.

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Kent