Alternately,
Ctrl-alt-F1 (Debian) at the GUI will get you back to the command line.
Grant
-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Dacre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 8:03
To: Sydney Linux Users Group
Subject: [SLUG] Preventing X from starting
automatically...
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.
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
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