Subject: Re: Help! (XF86config messed up)
From: Jeff Massung (jmassung@magpiesystems.com)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 12:47:09 MDT
Have you tried doing ctl+alt+backspace while in X (even though it is screwed up or not there) to get back to the command line?
- Jeff Massung (jmassung@magpiesystems.com)
- Programmer for Magpie Systems (http://www.magpiesystems.com)
- Bringing smart pigs and data analysis to the pipeline industry!
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Paullada <paullada@pacbell.net>
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: Help! (XF86config messed up)
OK here's another stupid newbie trick that I got myself into:
I was messing with the monitor resolutions in XF86Config and apparently screwed them up. My inittab is set to ID:5 to launch X on boot. Now when I reboot, X trys to launch, can't find a valid monitor sync/resolution and then relaunches itself in an endless loop. How do I get the server to just launch at the command line so I can fix the XF86 config file using a text editor. I tried the YDL 1.2 rescue disk, but I obviously don't know how to navigate to the correct file to edit. It only lets me look at files on the CD, not my linux HD. Any suggestions short of a complete re-install? Thanks in advance for your time.
-SLP
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