Tom von Schwerdtner wrote: > > 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,
ctrl-alt-f1 should put you in a text mode console. Log in as root and do XF86Setup jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.
