Hi, On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Dominic MacDonald-Aveyard wrote:
Well I gone and done it this time. Following the advice of changing the colour depth on my linux box, thanks for the advice everyone- I started up XSetup and it told me that x11 was already running did I wnat to reconfigure. Foolishly, I said yes, changed to 16b colour depth and saved the configuration. Then I logged out of K, and as usual the system started up kdm. Execpt thsi time it didn't it said started kdm and then just stopped on the text only screen and then the screen began to flash. I rebooted the same thing happend.
Its my own fault, every time I've used XSetup telling it to use current settings a sdefaults made it crash, I should have known better. anyways, in yast my system is set to do the kdm thing every time. I tried booting fron the boot floppy, same thing.
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?
The X-Server seems to have trouble to start and is respawned by xdm or kdm in a loop. If you use LILO, you can reboot the system in runlevel 2, which does not start the X window system. Just issue "linux 2" on the LILO prompt (assuming that "linux" is the name of your boot configuration). You can then correct your X configuration. Good luck! LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - 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>>