On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:02:06PM -0800, Sandy Cheema wrote: > I do have nVIDIA drivers for Linux but I don't know how to terminate X > server to reach the console. I have tried [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] and > [Ctrl+X] but neither of those commands terminate it. Instead, > [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] puts the system in standby.
Ctrl-Alt-F1 should put you on the text console. Edit /etc/inittab to change the initdefault from 5 to 3, reboot, log in as root, and use startx 2>>/tmp/xerrors to test your configuration tweaking. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
