On Saturday 16 September 2006 11:23, JRH Climbed A Telegraph Pole and Clicked:
> Hi All,
>
> A bit self-inflicted this one!
>
> I have got 2007 up and running, no problems.
>
> I began to play, and have set my machine up for graphical boot, and
> obviously I have had to enable framebuffer to do such a thing.
>
> Now, when I try to login, I have no keyboard input..... I tap the keys, but
> no characters appear! I can restart the X server, and if I am lucky, I will
> get 2 or 3 characters in, before it all halts again.
>
> Boot into failsafe, and everything works as it should do.
>
> What I need to know is:
>
> Is there any way to set the boot type from the command line? ie, put it
> back to text only boot? as it was fine before I began playing with
> graphical boot!
>
> If there is, I can boot into failsafe, type the command, and reset it to
> how it was.... that's the plan, anyhow!
>
> Any advice appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
ctrl - alt - backspace should get you to a terminal.
This is a fairly well known issue. I'm not sure what the actual fix is but I
fixed it by using gdm instead of kdm. the startx command from runlevel 3
often seems to work fine as well.
anyway, Once into runlevel 3 type mcedit /etc/inittab
If you don't have mcedit then urpmi mc
in /etc/inittab you will find the line
id:5:initdefault:
change the 5 to a 3.
save and quit and reboot.
Hope this helps.
benja22
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