On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:02:32AM +1000, Brendan Dacre wrote: > Gentlepeople, > > Genius that I am, I was so sure that I knew this old monitor's refresh > rate that I just went for it during the installation process. Now X > starts automaticatically and, of course, it turned out I was actually a > dunce and now I can't see anything intelligible on the monitor. > > I thought I might be able guess the key strokes to use to get back to a > text mode console (I have a Red Hat 7.1 KDE laptop) but it must be > running kdm (I guess) and I specified gdm on this Debian box, because > the keystrokes I entered didn't work. > > So, is there any way to alter the run level at boot time? This would > allow me a text login to run xconfig and fix the problem. I pressed > ctrl-X and got some sort of LILO menu (i.e. a BOOT: prompt) but it seems > to only allow me to specify a boot image and no parameters.
Hi Brendan, I've fond that this works: in /etc/inittab, hash/remove the following lines: Run xdm in runlevel 5 xdm is now a separate service x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon Regards, Campbell > > Otherwise, what are the gdm keystrokes to return to a text mode console? > > Finally, are there keystrokes to (on the fly) change the X resolution to > some sort of safe VGA mode to allow graceful reconfiguration? > > I have done this so many times with many operating systems now, you > think I would learn.... :-) (how do you do a rueful smile?) > > Brendan > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
