On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:35:28AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Thanks..yes I know the command to reconfigure the xserver & mouse. I > just can't get a terminal window to open. Well I did actually in Gnome > but there was a dialogue box in front of the shell and I couldn't see > the terminal window. After hobbling about the desktop with an erratic > mouse and then just the tab an arrow keys I must have done more damage > to the system because now the keyboard doesn't work in debian either. It > works fine in SuSe, (where I'm writing this from).
From SuSE, mount your Debian partition and then chmod a-x /mnt/etc/init.d/[gkwx]dm - this will zap your graphical login manager, and you can then boot Debian to a (hopefully working) console and reconfigure X. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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