Ronnie, have you tried to hit the 'ctrl+alt+F2 or F3 or F4 or....F8' key sequence? Would that help?
Jon On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:12, Ronnie T Livingston wrote: > hi, I can't startx on my laptop which has mandrake 8.1 installed on it. > So at the moment I basically have one CLI running. My question, Is it > possible to open another interface so I can other things in the > background?? Ive tried using the & after a comman but when I type another > command it kills the background job. > > thanks, > Ronnie > > The bad plowman quarrels with his ox. -Korean Proverb > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau