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


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