Ian Chapman <packages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David G. Miller wrote:
> I strongly recommend the "start in run level 3" approach to anyone
> having trouble getting their video setup configured. That way
> ctrl-alt-backspace can kill the X session if the need arises and you
> don't end up with X cycling until you reboot.
At least since about FC2 (maybe FC4) this shouldn't generally happen as
gdm will detect X respawning too fast and popup a console message
warning that X couldn't be started. It tries something like 5 or 6 times
before giving up. You are then free to use any of the VTs to fix the issue.
I got in the habit back around Red Hat 5.0 and just never got out of it
until now. Of course, the habit got reinforced when I played around
with some of the early proprietary drivers and such. I also did a lot
of teaching myself TCP/IP networking at one point and it was kind of
nice to be able to hop on the system without waiting for X to start
after a reboot.
Cheers,
Dave
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