Re: install

[Kent West]

Sidney Brooks wrote:

Although one person answered the message below, I
never saw it posted. In case something strange
happened, I am trying it again.
 

Rodney D. Myers responded to it.

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I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything
went smoothly until I tried to use it after the
installation. All I get is a blank screen and a frozen
computer. I think that my problem is a video card that
linux does not like, S3 Pro-Savage KM133. Any
suggestions as to how I can make things work. I cannot
use the text mode, therefore I cannpt change any
files.
 

Does Ctrl-Alt-F2 not switch you to a workable text-based console? From 
there you should be able to repair whatever's wrong.

Otherwise you can, at the "boot:" prompt (assuming you're using lilo and 
not grub, etc), enter "linux single" to boot into single-user mode, 
where you can then repair what's wrong.

Once at a text-based console, the first thing to do is to disable the 
automatic startup of X. You're probably using a graphical session 
manager, either xdm, wdm, kdm, or gdm. There are several ways to do 
this; probably the way I would do it is to temporarily put the single 
line "exit 0" as the first executable line in the session manager 
start-up script. This script will be in "/etc/init.d", and will have a 
symlink in "/etc/rc2.d". The script in "/etc/init.d" will probably be 
named "xdm", "wdm". "kdm". or "gdm". The script in "/etc/rc2.d" will 
have a "S" and a number in front of the script name, like "S99kdm" or 
"S98gdm". You can disable the graphical session for the current boot 
only by running this script with the "stop" flag, like so: 
"/etc/init.d/kdm stop" (which you'll want to do _before_ adding "exit 0" 
to the script).

Now run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and play with the X settings, 
and then try starting X with "startx". Once you get a working system, 
you can remove the "exit 0" and then run the script with the "start" 
option and see if the graphical session manager (GUI logon screen) works.

Success!

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Kent


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