Monte Copeland wrote: > > I know you know the old saying, "If it's not broke don't fix it." I > was trying to "tweak" > my X Window System display by running XF86Setup utility. I had had a > nice display setup already but I thought if I tinkered with it some more > I could get pictures to be little sharper than they were in netscape. ( > I have a 4 MB AGP Diamond Stealth Card ) After I changed some settings I > saved them and exited the program. When I rebooted the system, it went > through the standard boot-up routine except when it got to xdm my screen > went blank and everything locked up. I figured that if I new how to > disable xdm, I could boot up to just the Linux command line and run > XF86Setup again, but I do not know what config file to edit in order to > disable xdm.
Reboot, and when you get to the lilo prompt, enter 'linux 1' or whatever your label is followed by a 1. This will put you into single-user mode, from which you can edit your /etc/inittab on the line that says something like id:5:initdefault: and switch the 5 (or whatever it is) to a 2 Reboot, and now you are in multi-user, but without xdm starting auto- matically. -Mitch
