On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: > Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is > > kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been > > properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config? > > Eeeek! I had a simular problem with xdm recently... what I did was > boot > from the rescue disk (just like a normal install, no tricks), switch to > the console (alt-F2),. mount my root partition, with etc on it, and then > removed the file S99xdm (I think that's it) from /tempmount/etc/rc2.d > (actually I made a backup copy of it, but it's just a link to > ../init.d/xdm.) > > This link in /etc/rc2.d is what causes xdm to be launched on startup. > Removing it from this directory will cause xdm NOT to be started on > boot. > You can then unmount your / partition, reboot, and you shouldn't have to > worry about not being able to get to the prompt any more. You can run > xdm manually from the prompt by simply typing xdm as root when you're > ready.
To be less drastic... chmod a-x /etc/init.d/xdm or edit /etc/X11/config anmd change the line "start-xdm" to "no-start-xdm" -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"