On Mon 04 Sep 2000, Anton Ivanov wrote: > > Example: > I had to go into an intermediate single user mode boot on some of > my machines after forgetting to turn off xdm after changing video cards. > Or during dealing with laptop docking gear. > If there was a boot with X disabled and xdm installed it would have > made life a bit easier.
Actually, that used to be a problem (I've had that as well, where an incorrectly configured X e.g. for a different card caused an infinite loop of switching to X and back again, so that you never have the chance of switching with alt-ctrl-F1 and staying there). Nowadays xdm detects that the X server is looping, and after a couple of times stops restarting the X server. This has saved me once or twice. Thanks, Branden! (or was it someone else's work?) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]