On Sep 25, 2004 at 09:25, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing rage wrote: >Hello, > >My system is setup to boot in runlevel 5, I would prefer it not. I have >changed it to runlevel 3 in the inittab and that works. BUT, if I then want >to start X manually from the command line, it just hangs. > >I'm using "startx" after logging in. Is that the correct command? Yes. > I have >been using RedHat since early 1996 and that always worked. Has something >changed? Nope, not to my knowledge. You need to tell us what errors you find in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/XFree86.0.log file. Listing the hardware you have might also help. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper 12:56:03 up 89 days, 6:10, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
