Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Wednesday 18 April 2001 11:50 pm, Adam Bender wrote: > I just installed and configured X Windows on my system. I seem to have > done it incorrectly, since when it loads, it's a mostly white screen with > black dots on it. What makes it worse is that it now loads on startup, > even before I log

Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony Lau
At 12:50 AM -0400 4/19/2001, Adam Bender wrote: I just installed and configured X Windows on my system. I seem to have done it incorrectly, since when it loads, it's a mostly white screen with black dots on it. What makes it worse is that it now loads on startup, even before I login. How can

Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-19 Thread Scott Fraser
Adam, at your lilo prompt type linux -s This should get you into single user mode. from there follow the advice below. Cheers, Adam Bender wrote: > > --On Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:37 AM -0700 Dieter Schicker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Switch to a different terminal, e.g. by pressin

Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-19 Thread Adam Bender
--On Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:37 AM -0700 Dieter Schicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Switch to a different terminal, e.g. by pressing "Ctrl-Alt-F2" and deinstall xdm (dpkg --purge xdm). This doesn't work for me. X Windows loads automatically when I boot, even before I login, and is comp