Re: Calamity setting up X! Blank screen!

1997-08-21 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: [snip] > To stop xdm from starting after boot, type "linux single" at lilo's > "boot:" prompt. > Alternatively (in case I'm wrong about what's run in single user mode) > type "linux emergency" to bypass nearly all the startup scripts in > /etc/init.d/ resp.

Re: Calamity setting up X! Blank screen!

1997-08-21 Thread Joost Kooij
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Charles Blair wrote: > > >Then the real disaster! > > it goes through preliminary messages, types ``starting xdm'' and then > > I get a blank screen. > > > > I have also tried using the boot floppy I created when I installed > > the sy

Re: Calamity setting up X! Blank screen!

1997-08-20 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Charles Blair wrote: >I have been using Debian on several machines for over a year. I > tried to install X on one machine in what was apparently the wrong way. > I created a config file using xconfig, and have been bringing in a > bunch of packages, unpacking them with dp