We just had a thread on this recently. Try checking out the SLUG archives, looking for the thread "Preventing X from starting automatically".
--Tom > Hi all: > I was happily running woody stable on my new Inspiron 4100 laptop for > few months, when I felt the sudden urge to bring the system to latest > testing packages. I downloaded and installed packages ok. When I rebooted > the machine, X-window failed to start. Checking through the Xfree86.log, > found it complaining "Unable load GLcore". I commented it out and installed > the latest Nvidia driver and restart. This time got even worse. It flashed > three times, turned into blank then all the pixels started to get brighter > and brighter. I was horrified by all these and shut the machine down the > hard way. Since I set X-window to automatically start when boot, I can't > even access my machine now. > Has anyone got similar experience or knows how to fix this problem? If > not, how can I restore my X-windows back to stable version? > Also, I need to know how to force the box boot to single mode, I forgot. > :-( Oh, Yes! the graphic chip is Nvidia GeForce 2 Go (mobile). > Please, respond as soon as possible. > > Thank you. > > Xun. > > > -- > 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
