On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:35 +1000, Adam W wrote: > Hi, > > Got a problem getting my machine to automatically boot into X. I can > get it to boot into a console and then use 'startx' to get into X. but > everytime i tell it to boot into X it just gives me a black screen > when its meant to give me a logon screen. What happens if you do /etc/init.d/kdm start or something like that (I'm not sure how Mandrake does things nor which display manager you are running) > It could possibly be a video card problem. I cannot switch between X > (once started) and a console ( doing ctrl-alt-F1) and then back to X > (doing ctrl-alt-F7). Gives me this same black screen. Looks like it > has a problem switching. Doing ctrl-alt-F7 assumes that there are gettys running on VTs 1 to 6 but if, for example, you have only VTs 1 to 3 as I have on some of my setups you would see this. What is in /etc/inittab?
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