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Subject: Re: disaster -- messed up xconfig file -- blank screen now From: Jeff Mings <jeffm@lava.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 19:51:39 -1000 Daniel Goldin wrote: > Here's what I tried to do. Being an avid reader of this list-group, I > took the advice of some source to change my display to "1024x768" by > editing /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand and changing the mode subsection of > the "Screen" section to that number... well, it didn't work. On top of > that. My system automatically boots up X at start. So now, whenever I go > into Linux... black screen. > > Heeelllllp! If you have a Linux boot disk, use that. Otherwise, you could try telnetting into your machine across the network. Remember that you can use su -l to change from a regular user to root. Once you're in, edit /etc/inittab to start runlevel 3 by default. Look for something like id:5:initdefault and change the 5 to a 3. Then you should be able to restart and see a shell login again. Next, you can probably just run Xconfigurator from the console as root - it will walk you through the setup, and will probably probe your video card, ram and mouse without any work on your part. That's probably the easiest thing to do. === Subject: Re: disaster -- messed up xconfig file -- blank screen now From: Wayne Dyer <dwdyer@austin.rr.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:06:42 -0600 Daniel Goldin wrote: > Here's what I tried to do. Being an avid reader of this list-group, I > took the advice of some source to change my display to "1024x768" by > editing /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand and changing the mode subsection of > the "Screen" section to that number... well, it didn't work. On top of > that. My system automatically boots up X at start. So now, whenever I go > into Linux... black screen. If you use lilo, boot with the keyword "single": lilo: linux single or if your boot image is called "fredmertz": lilo: fredmertz single That will get you to a command prompt. Then edit XF86config. If you have more than one mode in your screen section you can use CtrlAlt+ or CtrlAlt- to switch between resolutions -- this might work. -W- === Subject: Re: disaster -- messed up xconfig file -- blank screen now From: Gustav Schaffter <gustav@schaffter.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 09:46:07 +0100 Daniel, Ctrl-Alt-F1 Login Reset your config file. (You did save a backup copy, right?) If not, use vi, emacs or any other editor. === Subject: Re: Auto logon and starting x at boot. From: Jeff Mings <jeffm@lava.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:09:50 -1000 Steve wrote: > I am trying to have a box autologin as a user and then start x when I boot. I > can get the box to auto login but it won't start X. It keeps telling me I might > not have ownership of the console. Here is the command I am using in inittab: > > x:3:respawn::/bin/su - <username> -c startx > > Any idea what is wrong?? If you want every user to jump into X, why don't you just put startx in /etc/bashrc. If only you will auto-start X, you could do the same for /home/steve/.bashrc. (I think that'll do it) ===