On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:12:57PM -0500, mmissett wrote: > Chris, > > Thanks for the last one. I'll give that a try. In > the meantime, though, I've created a new > problem, hopefully one with a simple answer > this time, though. I have gotten startx to work by > telling reconfigure that the mouse is on tty0. > Gnome comes up nice as can be, but with the > mouse frozen. And I can't get another terminal > with option-F2. Which means I can't do > anything, including shut down properly. So, I > now have the opposite problem: is there a way > on boot to interrupt it from _starting_ Xwindows?
It shouldn't start X unless you have a desktop manager installed like kdm, gdm, or xdm. Since you've been using startx manually, I'm surprised it starts automatically. Option-F2 is not the right combination within X. The key combination changes within X to Ctrl-Option-F2. Also Ctrl-Option-Backspace should stop the X server. Depending on your keyboard, it could be Command instead of Option in those combinations. I think putting the mouse on tty0 is not going to work, because it's not a serial mouse. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
