On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 20:53, Marc Stergionis wrote: > > I have been using (since root obviously can't log in graphically) > control-option-F1 to get a command line to use as root,
Better never log in as root at all. sudo or su is your friend. > but can't figure out how to toggle back out of that (to the user login) alt-F7, where alt can be option or command depending on the keymap. > and when I try to log in as my user, the screen tells me there's > already an xserver running (the existing graphic login screen). You could start another one with startx -- :1 . > Also, whenever I do use graphic login to start a user session, and > then logout to the graphic login screen, may cursor is *always* > frozen, even though it just worked in the previous session. This has been reported before, unfortunately I don't remember if any solution has been found yet. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast

