on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:44:15AM +1000, Peter McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy
>
> I am playing with a new install of RH7.1 on a PC that seems to be giving the
> vidoe drivers some grief.
> How do I stop the X stuff on startup so I can get in and modify my video driver
> settings ?
At the lilo prompt do "linux single", to bring you to single user mode from
boot.
edit the /etc/inittab file and see the section
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
Change
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
Now play with your video card settings using "startx" to kick off X each time.
You should also be able to kill X with "ctrl-alt-delete".
BB
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