Braden N. McDaniel writes: > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is > kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been > properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config?
I hit the same problem when I messed things up in a different way such that X could not run. Once I was able to get in, I discovered that xdm tries over and over again to bring up X, which would always fail. I heard some talk that xdm might be changed to fall back to a console login after a number of failures. Anyway, I had to boot from a Debian Rescue floppy to get in. Forget about using the "rescue" command on that floppy -- it never worked for me. Just go ahead as if you were going to do an install. *Very* *carefully*, use the menu commands to mount your existing swap partition and mount your root partition, and then switch to another virtual console (Alt-F2, is it?). From there, disable xdm somehow, such as by renaming the xdm script in /etc/init.d. Then reboot from your hard drive as normal. I'm not going to use xdm again until such time as I have a backup root partition set up (with xdm disabled) so that I can boot and repair things without having to use the Rescue disk. -- Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
