On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, JB said:
Some of the typed lines in in x windows in my pro-7.1 were either cut off in the middle if the typed line or even looked as though they were even hand written. I ran sax2 in order to hopefully fix that and now my mouse pointer is a big square and I have no control in x windows. I am trying to figure out how to turn off x windows but have not been able to get into the unix like text environment and really don't want to reload for 10 hours again. Does anyone know how I can get back into my system without reloading? Also how can Xwindows be kept from automatically starting?
Boot from the CD or a rescue floppy. Mount the root partition on the HD and edit /etc/inittab. Look for # default runlevel id:2:initdefault: Your inittab would probably have a no. 5. Change it to 2, then reboot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Karns jkarns@csd.net