Hi,
Unless something really really wierd messd up I think swwitching to
console F1 (ctrl+alt+F1-6) will work. Consoles 1-6 are text consoles,
and X starts on virtual console 7. So even if he starts X automatically,
he should be able to get a text console on F1-F6. If he stayed in conole
7 and killed the X-server it would jump right back into the garbled
X-win screen. If I'm wrong about any of this, feel free to point it out
to me, as I'm still learning Linux now too :)
But, Toms' method, I believe is definitely going to work . :)
"S.Toms" wrote:
>
> echen wrote:
> >
> > Just press ctrl+alt+ F1
> > to switch to the text console, there you can run yast, or fix your setup
> > files by hand.
> >
> > >
> > > How can I fix this? Or should I just bare with windws for the next few
> > > days until I get SuSE 6 and have it up and running?
> > >
> > > Feeling silly,
> > >
>
> Its possible that (speaking from experience here) that when he tries
> to change to a console it wont accept due to the fact that X continues
> to respawn do to his error. I accidently set up my inittab to runlevel 4
> restarted my machine and when nothing happened realized that I hadn't
> setup X yet with XF86Setup or XF86Config. So I quickly tried to set it
> up but when it got to the portion where it restarts the X server it
> kinda just sits there flashing rapidly at you telling you how stupid
> what you did was (and boy did I feel stupid at the time).
> Anyway, to make a long story short, I booted with my floppy, mounted
> my drives and then copied the inittab file to another floppy, quickly
> mounted that floppy on another machine (non-windows) and edited the file
> back to runlevel 3 and 'wait' for launching X, then restored it to my
> screwed up system which upon reboot went straight into a console and
> allowed me to rerun the setup for X.
> If you don't have another linux machine available, a windows machine
> will work which you can telnet to your ISP with, upload the file to your
> home directory there, edit it and then re-download it to your floppy.
> The other problem is, I can't remember which file in suse Yast puts
> that setting in other then inittab.
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