problem getting back into pro-7.1
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?
JB a écrit :
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.
I think you misconfigured your X server You should type CTRL; ALT; F1 to go back to console mode Then run Sax again with better parameters. Sax2 did not work for me though, killed the whole system and I had to reboot so I had to use Sax1 to configure my X server. Does anyone know how
I can get back into my system without reloading?
did you configure Lilo ? if so you should have a boot diskette or a bootable MBR on your hard disk. Also how
can Xwindows be kept from automatically starting?
Run yast1 and write : DISPLAYMANAGER="console" in your /etc/rc.config file that's what I did for me ; you can go to graphic mode again from the command line by typing : kdm , for instance or whatever your GUI is. hope this helps though I am a bit of a newbie myself. -- ============================================================================== Paul Ollion. ==============================================================================
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
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