[newbie] Muffed XF86config
Hello all, I was messing with...ahem...learning about different XF86config settings. The last one I tried was invalid. This I know because now when Linux boots it starts X and X crashes with an error concerning an invalid setting. The problem is is that I have my box setup to automatically boot into X. When the server crashes the console with the X server error just keeps flashing over and over. I am unable to get to another console or get it to get out of the loop it is in. Is there a way that I can override the automatic booting into X at startup? Any Help much appreciated! Kind Regards, Harry Miktarian
Re: [newbie] Muffed XF86config
at boot time type linux 3 and it will boot to a command prompt. Or after boot, if you do a ctrl, alt, f1 you will get a console window that you can log onto and fix x windows. (you may have to do a ctrl z and then type bg to put the X windows into background. - Original Message - From: "Harry Miktarian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 5:52 PM Subject: [newbie] Muffed XF86config Hello all, I was messing with...ahem...learning about different XF86config settings. The last one I tried was invalid. This I know because now when Linux boots it starts X and X crashes with an error concerning an invalid setting. The problem is is that I have my box setup to automatically boot into X. When the server crashes the console with the X server error just keeps flashing over and over. I am unable to get to another console or get it to get out of the loop it is in. Is there a way that I can override the automatic booting into X at startup? Any Help much appreciated! Kind Regards, Harry Miktarian
Re: [newbie] Muffed XF86config
I did that same thing on a 6.0 installif you're on a network you're home free. I telnetted to the Mandrake box, Su'ed to root then edited the XF86Config file remotely. Of course in my case I knew exactly what I had changed to make it unbootable so it was easy. If you don't know what to change in the X config file then change the init level in...uhh /etc/inittab? I cna't recall exactlyI'm knew to Linux from FreeBSD. I At 04:52 PM 12/7/1999 , you wrote: Hello all, I was messing with...ahem...learning about different XF86config settings. The last one I tried was invalid. This I know because now when Linux boots it starts X and X crashes with an error concerning an invalid setting. The problem is is that I have my box setup to automatically boot into X. When the server crashes the console with the X server error just keeps flashing over and over. I am unable to get to another console or get it to get out of the loop it is in. Is there a way that I can override the automatic booting into X at startup? Any Help much appreciated! Kind Regards, Harry Miktarian
