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by **Andy Senoaj** » Tue, 30 May 2000 04:00:00

I've set up a RH 6.1 and I gave yes when the system asked me to
automatically start x every time I boot.
But after I boot, I find out that I have put the incorrect video timings in
the config, thus the screen is out of frequency and unviewable.
I tried to exit X by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc, the X stops but loops back to
X again, with an out of frequency screen.

is there a way I can override the system so , I can prevent starting X and
reconfigure the settings?

by **Steve D** » Tue, 30 May 2000 04:00:00

>> I've set up a RH 6.1 and I gave yes when the system asked me to
>> automatically start x every time I boot. But after I boot, I find out
>> that I have put the incorrect video timings in the config, thus the
>> screen is out of frequency and unviewable. I tried to exit X by
>> pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc, the X stops but loops back to X again, with an
>> out of frequency screen.

>> is there a way I can override the system so , I can prevent starting X
>> and reconfigure the settings?

> Boot into another runlevel. I don't know the runlevels of RedHat, but
> runlevel 2 should work. To boot into runlevel 2 type the name of the
> default image to boot on the LILO boot prompt followed by the runlevel
> you want to boot into, for example:

> LILO Boot: linux 2

1 is single user
2 is multiuser, without NFS
3 full multiuser
5 is graphical

by **Raffael Herzo** » Wed, 31 May 2000 04:00:00

> I've set up a RH 6.1 and I gave yes when the system asked me to
> automatically start x every time I boot.
> But after I boot, I find out that I have put the incorrect video timings in
> the config, thus the screen is out of frequency and unviewable.
> I tried to exit X by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc, the X stops but loops back to
> X again, with an out of frequency screen.

> is there a way I can override the system so , I can prevent starting X and
> reconfigure the settings?

Boot into another runlevel. I don't know the runlevels of RedHat, but
runlevel 2 should work. To boot into runlevel 2 type the name of the
default image to boot on the LILO boot prompt followed by the runlevel
you want to boot into, for example:

LILO Boot: linux 2

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by **Anita Lew** » Wed, 31 May 2000 04:00:00

Quote:
>Boot into another runlevel. I don't know the runlevels of RedHat, but
>runlevel 2 should work. To boot into runlevel 2 type the name of the
>default image to boot on the LILO boot prompt followed by the runlevel
>you want to boot into, for example:

>LILO Boot: linux 2

If you want to make it permanent, you can edit /etc/inittab. As root do:
pico /etc/inittab

Change this line:
id:5:initdefault:

to this:
id:3:initdefault:

I think that will do it for RedHat. In another distribution I also had to
comment out a line about starting xdm down at the bottom. I don't think
that is the case with RedHat.

Anita

by **Ellio** » Thu, 01 Jun 2000 04:00:00

> >Boot into another runlevel. I don't know the runlevels of RedHat, but
> >runlevel 2 should work. To boot into runlevel 2 type the name of the
> >default image to boot on the LILO boot prompt followed by the runlevel
> >you want to boot into, for example:

> >LILO Boot: linux 2
> If you want to make it permanent, you can edit /etc/inittab. As root do:
> pico /etc/inittab

> Change this line:
> id:5:initdefault:

> to this:
> id:3:initdefault:

You may be wondering how to do this when you cannot view anything because
of the X windows problem! Simply press Ctrl Alt F1 when you get into your
unviewable Xwindows screen. This will open another console, which is a
full screen text based one. In fact, you can have 6 of these (F1-F6) but
you don't really want this many. The graphic window is F7.

This will allow you to escape from a faulty X display without the need to
reboot.

Elliot

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by **max** » Tue, 06 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Andy Senoaji a crit :

Quote:> I've set up a RH 6.1 and I gave yes when the system asked me to
> automatically start x every time I boot.
> But after I boot, I find out that I have put the incorrect video timings in
> the config, thus the screen is out of frequency and unviewable.
> I tried to exit X by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc, the X stops but loops back to
> X again, with an out of frequency screen.

> is there a way I can override the system so , I can prevent starting X and
> reconfigure the settings?

Try this
On LILO BOOT:

Type linux 3
thats all

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