Theres certainly a proper way to get back to text mode, but when my iBook had a corrupted display I found that killing X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace five times in a row returned you to a shell.
What you're seeing corrupted is gdm, the login manager. Your issues woulds like a refresh rate issue with using a CRT monitor Cian On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:59:28 -0600, Marilyn Fulper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to the list and am not sure if my subscription has been accepted or > not, but thought would try because I am under a deadline. > > I think I have loaded Yellowdog 4.0.1 on a mac mini. I have rebooted and > that's about as far as I have gotten. I can't read my monitor...the image > is vibrating so fast, I can't really see what to do. I used the text > install because of this issue but now I can't see do do anything else. The > monitor is an old 17 inch mac monitor. I have a newer 15 inch flat screen > but it doesn't have the right plug (ADC and I need DVI) The mini came with > an adaptor but it is VGA to DVI. > > I think I can make out Yellowdog and what may be a log in box underneath > but I have never worked with linux before so I am clueless. Is there a way > to leave the GUI and go to text? > > Marilyn > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > -- --------------------------- "We're busy running out of time" Bernard Sumner, 1993 _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
