Hey there again everyone, 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? Feeling silly, Dom == _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</A</A>> - 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>>
Just press ctrl+alt+ F1 to switch to the text console, there you can run yast, or fix your setup files by hand. echen Dominic MacDonald-Aveyard wrote:
Hey there again everyone,
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?
Feeling silly, Dom ==
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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>>
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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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>>
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>>
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