echen wrote:
Hi, Unless something really really wierd messd up I think swwitching to console F1 (ctrl+alt+F1-6) will work. Consoles 1-6 are text consoles, and X starts on virtual console 7. So even if he starts X automatically, he should be able to get a text console on F1-F6. If he stayed in conole 7 and killed the X-server it would jump right back into the garbled X-win screen. If I'm wrong about any of this, feel free to point it out to me, as I'm still learning Linux now too :) But, Toms' method, I believe is definitely going to work . :)
You would think it would work, but in my case it didn't, everytime I tried to switch to console 6 ti would just ignore my keystroke because I hadn't completely setup X at the time, only enough of it had gotten setup to attempt to load and loop. Although Lenz's method sounds really nice, I never tried that so I don't know for sure if it would have worked but sounds like it could have. -- Ec|ipse on EFnet - tomas@primenet.com - <A HREF="http://www.primenet.com/~tomas"><A HREF="http://www.primenet.com/~tomas</A">http://www.primenet.com/~tomas</A</A>> Ec|ipse@|Watcher| - botnet webpage down until further notice Slackware Linux v3.6+ - Kernels 2.0.35/2.2.1 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>