>  I recently installed a Dlink 10/ethernet card and the first time I tried
> to access linux, it booted up normally till the point it had to start X
> and then it just blanked out. a ctrl-alt-F1 gave me a text login screen
> and I logged in as root and typed "startx"  and I got teh following error

ctrl+alt+f1 doesn't kill X; it just takes you to a text console. X is still
running, and if you hit alt+f7 (or whatever the first free virtual console
would be), you can go back to your running X session.

so that's why X won't let you start it again. (It's possible to have
multiple X servers running simultaneously, but that's a rather complicated
topic).

Carl Soderstrom
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
(952) 943-8700
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