I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing <ctrl><alt><f1> once the xdm process started. -------------------------------------------------------
Braden N. McDaniel writes: > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is > kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been > properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config? _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com