On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 01:39, Nick Wilson wrote: > If the x server is going screwey how do I break out of graphical mode? - > "ctrl alt backspace" does not seem to work? What do you mean by "screwey" exactly? If you mean that it completely locks up to where you can't use <ctrl>+<alt>+<backspace>, then you're probably at the point where you can't do much unless you hook up a serial terminal, or SSH/telnet into the box and manually kill off the X process. <ctrl>+<alt>+<F1> switches you to a console prompt. That might be what you're looking for. Hmmm...if your graphical mode keeps trying to load but fails and goes into what seems like an infinite loop of trying to load, then give it at least a couple of minutes and it'll usually start too fast which will cause it to be stopped for a couple minutes. Once it stops you can then get to a prompt to login and change runlevels (telinit 3) to fix the problem. If graphical restart seems to not respawn too fast then you might have to restart and do something like add a kernel option of "single" to get to a console. Anyway, not sure what your problem is exactly. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Hedlund daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx CEO & Chief Consultant DigiTree Studios Pty Ltd.
