On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Phil Mullane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Until this morning my installation of sidux worked fine. Then I ran into a
> problem I've had before (sometimes) with openSUSE, but never with sidux--or
> any debian-type distro. I never figured out how to get past it in SUSE, but
> wasn't that concerned because I'm not really that crazy about SUSE. I love
> my sidux installation and would like to be able to keep it instead of
> starting over.
>
> Then I come to:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> (although it does not come up as an email address--it only does that here)
That is a shell prompt which is showing you your login name and the
computer's hostname. It just superficially looks like an email
address.
> And that is as far as I get. I can not get the GUI to come up. I don't
> know what command to use to get it to show up.
>
> When it is booting up I do see something I haven't NOTICED before--something
> about no ISDN card and modprobe--but it goes by too fast to read. (I write
> NOTICED because it may have been there all along, and I just never saw it
> before.)
>
> So I have two questions.
>
> One: Is there a command that I can use to get past the login and bring up
> the GUI?
$ startx
> And two: Is there a way to stop the boot process so I can get a better look
> at the part about "no ISDN" and get a better idea of what may be causing the
> problem.
>
You can probably see the boot process information in /var/log/messages.
The "no ISDN" message is probably just a comment that the startup of
the operating system looked around for ISDN and didn't find any.
carl
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