On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:43:28AM +0000, murali m wrote: > i have a celeron 533 which runs red hat 7.0. lately > when i run my x windows (startx) i get nothing on the > screen. even the cntrl+alt+n virtual consoles not work. > > but when i press cntrl+alt+del i can see my hard disk > activity and the system restarts i.e it is able to > shutdown. > ---end quoted text---
Your problem is not very clear. What I gather is that it used to run normally before, and presently you cannot get into X. There are good many chances that eother your Xfree driver has gone corrupt, or there are some goof-ups in your /etc/XF86- config. It would be advisable to re-install XFree for your graphic card. Incidentally, three-finger-salute for "X" is Ctrl-Alt- BkSpc ... this will kill X if Xfree is running. If you can- not do that, it is an indication that something in the XFree system is at fault. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : bash tricks (#1) LOST #147 Why re-type a full command. At the bash prompt "!" allows you to go back to the last command executed with a search pattern. e.g. During an edit-compile session you entered something like gcc -o test test.c, and then edited it again, to re-compile it all you do is enter '!gcc' [Enter] ... and there it goes ... ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>######################################## : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
