On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:55:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:28:11PM +0518, USM Bish wrote:
> > Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards.
>
> Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 instead. Ctrl-Alt-F10 works with some _installations_,
> specifically those which have a getty running o
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:28:11PM +0518, USM Bish wrote:
> Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards.
Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 instead. Ctrl-Alt-F10 works with some _installations_,
specifically those which have a getty running on tty10. The default,
however, is to have gettys running on tty1-tty6, so
Your problem seems to be inability to get access to
your computer since "xdm" is taking you directly
into "X", from where the system blanks out.
Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards.In case
you manage to come out to console, immediately do
the following as root:
#update-rc.d -f xdm re
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim Merante wrote:
> Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the
> boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows
> command?
>
Actually, what I find works is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (repeat as
necessary). Apparently (judging by other answers) XDM is
stubbo
Assunto: Re: X config problem
causes
me to have reinstall entire
OS--!!newbie
30/10/00 warning!!
I think the reason it is doing this is because XDM is running and putting you
right into X Try ctrlaltf10 that should drop you out to a command prompt. My
suggestion would be to remove XDM which you could do my running apt-get remove
xdm. This is will let you play with various configs and boot y
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim Merante wrote:
> Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the
> boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows
> command?
When lilo comes up you can hit . Then type "linux single" and you
will get a root prompt.
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