I would back up your xorg.conf & recreate it with Xorg -configure which should give you a working default configuration. See if it'll go into init 5 with that, although the fact that you can do startx sort of suggests that the problem is elsewhere.
Dave On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I just installed CentOS 5 on a Sony Vaio V505 (PCG-V505DC2P) and it worked > perfectly. A full yum update also worked fine. > > The user made various changes to it over the weekend, and how I'm faced with > trying to undo endless "INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > minutes" error messages. > > I've spent half the day googling various answers. init 5 will not do > anything. startx and xinit do work, but don't provide the proper window > manager nor X window sessions. > > Now that I think of it, after the first yum update, the system defaulted to a > tty, and I had to CNTL-Alt-F7 to switch to the X display. > > I also tried to install the ATI video driver, but that claimed an error in the > end. > > I tried to comment out x:5:respawn... at #Run xdm in runlevel 5 > at the end of /etc/inittab then initiate init 5 from a tty session, but that > didn't do any good. > > Ideas would be most appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
