On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:38:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Mark Marburger wrote: > > > > HELP! my old video card sucked, so my friend gave me his Trident card. I > > put it in the box and now when i boot, the screen is friggin black!!!! How > > do I get into xf86config to change the settings?? >
I had what could be a similar problem when I was trying to get my voodoo 3 to work. I had foolishly set my box to runlevel 5 so it kept trying to fire up gdm on boot, and it would keep trying, failing, retrying without givimg me enough time to even hig ctrl-alt-backspace or switch to another tty to shut things down. I eventually fixed it by booting via the Mandrake CD (which is what's on that box) and when I got to the installation part, I switched over to another tty (F4 I think) which was set up in single user mode (could be a nasty security flaw, but....). From there I could get to the main drive and alter the init files to change to runlevel 3, and reboot. -tom -- "I've been to one world's fair, a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard" - Major Kong
