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 . :) "S.Toms" wrote:
echen wrote:
Just press ctrl+alt+ F1 to switch to the text console, there you can run yast, or fix your setup files by hand.
How can I fix this? Or should I just bare with windws for the next few days until I get SuSE 6 and have it up and running?
Feeling silly,
Its possible that (speaking from experience here) that when he tries to change to a console it wont accept due to the fact that X continues to respawn do to his error. I accidently set up my inittab to runlevel 4 restarted my machine and when nothing happened realized that I hadn't setup X yet with XF86Setup or XF86Config. So I quickly tried to set it up but when it got to the portion where it restarts the X server it kinda just sits there flashing rapidly at you telling you how stupid what you did was (and boy did I feel stupid at the time). Anyway, to make a long story short, I booted with my floppy, mounted my drives and then copied the inittab file to another floppy, quickly mounted that floppy on another machine (non-windows) and edited the file back to runlevel 3 and 'wait' for launching X, then restored it to my screwed up system which upon reboot went straight into a console and allowed me to rerun the setup for X. If you don't have another linux machine available, a windows machine will work which you can telnet to your ISP with, upload the file to your home directory there, edit it and then re-download it to your floppy. The other problem is, I can't remember which file in suse Yast puts that setting in other then inittab. -- 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>>
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