oliver audiated, > Unless your /etc/inittab is very different from mine, `telinit 3' will > have no effect at all. In Debian, X is not normally dependent on the > run-level.
> There are two ways to stop xdm. The simple one is to press Ctrl-R at the ... It's not stopping X that's the problem; I can get that accomplished. The problem is that after X crashes, whether run from xdm or startx, it corrupts something badly enough that I can't start X without rebooting. A few weeks ago, it was suggested that dropping to runlevel 3, then returning to multiuser, might renitialize whatever happens. >If the screen is still disabled after this, it might be possible to use >some svgalib program to set it back to a sane state. However, this is hmm, that might do it. Hack the X source (!ack!) to call this function when instantiating . . . *shudder* hmm, maybe I better buckle down and try installing the 3.3.3 binary that I downloaded . . . thanks rick --
