On 6/11/05, Ken Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:35 +1000, Adam W wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Got a problem getting my machine to automatically boot into X. I can
> > get it to boot into a console and then use 'startx' to get into X. but
> > everytime i tell it to boot into X it just gives me a black screen
> > when its meant to give me a logon screen.
> What happens if you do
> /etc/init.d/kdm start
> or something like that (I'm not sure how Mandrake does things nor which
> display manager you are running)
Will give it a try... currently using GDM... but i've tried changing
between kdm, gdm and xdm and it does the same thing each time.
> > It could possibly be a video card problem. I cannot switch between X
> > (once started) and a console ( doing ctrl-alt-F1) and then back to X
> > (doing ctrl-alt-F7). Gives me this same black screen. Looks like it
> > has a problem switching.
> Doing ctrl-alt-F7 assumes that there are gettys running on VTs 1 to 6
> but if, for example, you have only VTs 1 to 3 as I have on some of my
> setups you would see this. What is in /etc/inittab?
I know ctrl-alt-F7 works on this edition of MDK because i used to do
it on another machine.
here is my /etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"
# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"
# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
Thanks
Adam.
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