Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-11-01 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:55:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:28:11PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > > Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards. > > Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 instead. Ctrl-Alt-F10 works with some _installations_, > specifically those which have a getty running o

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:28:11PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards. Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 instead. Ctrl-Alt-F10 works with some _installations_, specifically those which have a getty running on tty10. The default, however, is to have gettys running on tty1-tty6, so

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread USM Bish
Your problem seems to be inability to get access to your computer since "xdm" is taking you directly into "X", from where the system blanks out. Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards.In case you manage to come out to console, immediately do the following as root: #update-rc.d -f xdm re

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread Edward Craig
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim Merante wrote: > Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the > boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows > command? > Actually, what I find works is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (repeat as necessary). Apparently (judging by other answers) XDM is stubbo

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-30 Thread romeu
I think this kind of stuff would really do good to the debian configuration. There's a lot of msg's at startup I cannot view with neither dmesg nor with cat /var/log/syslog. It's quite simple to implement (well, windows does that). We should be able to go step-by-step from the very begining of the

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim Merante wrote: > Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the > boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows > command? When lilo comes up you can hit . Then type "linux single" and you will get a root prompt.

X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-30 Thread Jim Merante
Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows command? (BTW, if I have posted this on a non-newbie list, I apoloogize and I will seek help elsewhere) After I have configured X and go to run it, my monitor goes blank and the green light