Lol, that is impossible. X resides on tty 7 (ctrl+alt+F7) you can always access the command line from tty1 to tty6 (ctrl+alt+F1 to F6).
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:44 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote: > Unless you're an expert in X, don't try these suggestions. I was trying > various solutions as suggested on this list and I managed to screw up X > so bad that I couldn't even use the command line. I had to manually > power down and do a fresh install, after which I still had the problem. > Just a word of caution from someone who's "been there". > > Don Henson > > Aniruddha wrote: > > Try these suggestions: > > > >> In cases like this where GUI was present during install it is also > > possible to > >> get GUI using installation xorg.conf. Login as root and simply copy: > >> > > cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-old > > > >> cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > > > > If all else fails: > > > > > >>> Try setting the video driver in xorg.conf to vesa. You can edit > >>> xorg.conf with this command (if you have nano installed otherwise > > you > >>> need to use vi): > >>> > >>> nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:38 +1100, Dave Barton wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > > From: anker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST > > > >>>> Hi All, after my second download and still the same result ie no GUI > >>>> is starting, so I'll need help with this problem. Net download from > >>>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss working fine > >>>> both times. Yast2 working in txt mode also appears to be fine. At end > >>>> of first boot startup the display flashes 3 times with about 5 sec > >>>> interval in an attempt to start the x-server ending with a msg gui > >>>> failed to start followed by more similar msg about the x-output log > >>>> and indicate the mouse is not configured correctly and last that gdm > >>>> need to restart after correction is done. Mause+keyboard is a > >>>> wireless Logitech connected to standard ps2 input. Sax2 attempt to > >>>> start its own gui which also fails. Swop of ..config with the > >>>> ..config.install produce a display with a moving pointer but other > >>>> wise not useable, as The section for the mouse is quite different. > >>>> The display and the Nvidia seems to be correctly detected. I'll try > >>>> sax2 from runlevel 3 otherwise I need some input on where to look. > >>>> anker > > I don't know if this is going to help, but in the past I had a box to > > set up that gave me the same problem. > > I found the work-around was to enter "vga" (without quotes and no = > > equals sign) in the grub boot options. At runlevel 5 I get a graphical > > log-in screen and from there on X works perfectly. It makes no sense to > > me and I have no explanation as to why this works, but it can't do any > > harm to just give it a try. > > > > HTH > > > > Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
