It was me Charles During boot just after the kernel is uncompressed and the system checks your drives you will see the Line "Welcome to Linux-Mandrake. Enter [I] for Interactive Startup" You will then see a listings of processes as they are being started with the notation of either OK or failed. I thnk of it as the OK screen, at any rate as soon as you see this message enter shift I and you will go into interactive startup and you will have to answer Y(yes) or N (no) as to wheather to start each process. Just enter Y for each one untill you come to X and then enter N. When you get to the login promt login as root and you should be able to reconfigure X and enable it to autostart. It does work . I had to do it myself when a monitor died while my system was still running and I installed a new monitor that could not run at the same res and sync. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug McGarrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the .... > I'm not sure whether it's "Charles" or Greg Stewart > I'm addressing this to, but how does one do an > interactive startup? Thanx. --doug, wa2say > > At 16:15 10/22/2000 -0400, you wrote: > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Greg Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 4:01 PM > >Subject: Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the .... > > > > > /snip/ > > > I like the graphical login. > >When changing monitor or video cards all you need to do is run > >xconfiguration and change to a low res and a generic monitor, shutdown, > >install your new monitor, resart and you will boot to X as normal. You then > >need only run xconfiguration and set it up for your new monitor. > > > >As to solving your problem after the fact. > >Have you tried entering Interative startup, not having x start and then > >configuring it at the login prompt. > > > > Charles > > > > > >Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > >Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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