I can indeed make a boot disk that way and had forgotten (thanks for that). So let's say I get booted, how do I change the runtime level to 3 from 5? Or will I even need to? Can't I run Xconfig from the boot disk?
Also, where is this famous "example" that you guys are speaking of? I feel really optimistic for the first time in a while. The feeback is really helpful.
Regards,
Michael
Robert White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
to make a recovery disk using rawrite from the windows partition. Check the disk images on your CD under a directory called dosimages or images, something like that. I've learned from similiar experience to always make a boot disk. In fact they are a bit like lucky talisman, in that if you have one you don't seem to need it :-)Nah it's pretty easy actually. Look at the example one and then look on the xfree web site to figure out what X identifies the card as. As of 4.2 you don't need different servers, I think you just tell it the type of graphics chips you have. Xconfig and xconfigurator will work I think. Maybe someone else can confirm? This thing about the Glide libraries has I think, been acknowledged as a bug, it shouldn't do it.The idea of modifying the config files overwhelms me as a new user. Can I install the 4.2.0 XFree86 and ONLY configure with Xconfigurator? Why didn't it ask me for the Glide libraries under version 4.0.3?
Thanks again,
MichaelRobert White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MichaelI think that your black screen is probably because X isn't properly configured and you have the machine configured to boot straight into a display manager login such as xdm, kdm etc. The reason CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will not work is that these managers run as daemons and respawn.
I think your options here are to
(i) if the box is on a network telnet onto it whilst it is at the black screen and change the default runlevel
(ii) look for a safe boot mode on your boot menu and change run level
(iii) boot from a floppy and change run levelOnce the machine will boot into character mode then it should be possible to configure X without the glide library unless you have a voodoo card that needs it. I think you can configure the card using xconfig (?) of xconfigurator which will prompt for the glide library.
The glide library issue happened to me and I got round it by a mixture of the above messages and editing the xconfig file by hand by comparing it to the example file. Eventually I got something that worked.
Keep the run level below graphical login until you are sure it works. I think 3 is multiuser 5 is graphical login on my systems but I don't know if this is universal. The run levels are cumulative.
Good Luck.
Rob
Michael Derksen wrote:
So, I download all relevant files to /root/temp/ and run the Xinstall.sh file. Installation goes GREAT! No errors, not stalls, I'm thinking "this is too good to be true!!" Well......it was. I then ran -configure and got a big error that told me that the glide library couldn't be found, yada yada yada. All this is okay if someone can point me in the direction of the necessary library (and tell me where I should put it etc.) but in the meantime, there is a different problem, when I re-booted, I get the login prompt, but then is automatically starts X and I get a black screen. i hit cntrl/atl/backspace and it won't back out to the prompt again. So, I end up have to just kill the power to shutdown. No way to re-run ANYTHING!!! I know that the black screen is probably because my laptop can not support 24-bit mode and needs to be 16-bit. But I can't get in to change it. I'd like to run Xconfigu! rator because I'm mor! e familiar with it. Is this a reasonable way to set up my X?Thanks again for the support
Michael(BTW, is there a similarly helpful mailing list for GENERAL Linux questions? I don't want to SPAM the list with my off-topic questions, but need some advice on a partition scheme)
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