lameth wrote:
> How do you shut X-windows down and get to the command prompt?
> Depending on the response I get from another post I'm thinking of
> upgrading the drivers for my video card and I'm sure it wouldn't be a
> bad idea to turn X off while I do so.
>
>
Depends:
- on the window man
* lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021009 15:45]:
> How do you shut X-windows down and get to the command prompt?
> Depending on the response I get from another post I'm thinking of
> upgrading the drivers for my video card and I'm sure it wouldn't be a
> bad idea to turn X off while I do so.
If you
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 00:46, lameth wrote:
> How do you shut X-windows down and get to the command prompt?
> Depending on the response I get from another post I'm thinking of
> upgrading the drivers for my video card and I'm sure it wouldn't be a
> bad idea to turn X off while I do so.
>
I'm s
> "Brian" == Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> I don't know which kernel RH 5.2 was based on, was it 2.0.x or
Brian> 2.2.x? Apparently the console device was not around in the
Brian> 2.0.x days, which Debian 2.1 is based on, so a symlink was used
Brian> then. In
*- On 26 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about "Re: shutting down X"
>>>>>> "Salman" == Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Salman> Ok. I'll also check RedHat-5.2 to see what /dev/console points
> Salman> to under there. T
> "Salman" == Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Salman> Ok. I'll also check RedHat-5.2 to see what /dev/console points
Salman> to under there. Then I'll try symlinking it to /dev/tty1 and
Salman> see if that solves my problem. BTW, under RH5.2, I am running
Salman> kerne
> "Brian" == Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> You should always get dumped back to tty1 because that is the
Brian> terminal on which wdm was started.
Brian> Did you force syslogd to reload the syslog.conf file after you
Brian> modified it? '/etc/init.d/syslogd
*- On 26 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about "Re: shutting down X"
>
> here is the relevant section from my /etc/syslog.conf before I
> started modifying it:
>
> begin
> #
> # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
&
> "Brian" == Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> Look in your /etc/syslog.conf for output to a different tty. I
Brian> used to use one of the following and had similiar results, I
Brian> have since commented them out.
Brian> #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err
*- On 26 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about "shutting down X"
>
> I use WDM (WINGs Display Manager) instead of xdm to manage
> X on my slink box. I have noticed this weird thing when
> shutting down or rebooting my system.
>
> After I enter shutdown/poweroff/reboot, the X server is
> terminated but th
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