From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Randall Parker wrote:
> Adam > wrote:
>
>> Do you boot directly into X rather than logging in & then typing
>> "startx"?
>
> I normally boot directly into X. Is there a way to intervene in the boot
> process to tell it to not start X?
>

Ummm...yeeeeerrrss. You have that slightly arse about tit in that actually
you have to tell it to boot into X.

It is unfortunate that I have no idea wrt the Fedora config GUIs but there
will be a tick box somewhere which says "Boot into X" usually
accompanies by a "boot as designated user" so that if you're the
only user & you like to (a) finish the boot sequence with X running
& (b) have it booted into X as "you" then you can set that
too.

>> i.e. console level is OK?
>
> I can boot with the rescue disk and then type:
>
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>
>> If so (A) uninstall the matrox driver & (b) set X org to a low level std
>> device e.g. a vga card.
>
> While booted into console mode with the rescue CD if I do this:
>
>> cd /etc/X11
>> Xorg -config xorg.config.new
>
> Then I get a corrupted screen.
>
>> An alternative if you are able to run in console mode is to su as root &
>> then run whatever the x config & setup prog is in RH.
>
> Yes, I'm trying to do that. No, it is not working for me.
>

Have you had any luck since your orig mail was written?

It's difficult as I am not knowledgeable wrt Fedora setup utils etc but
often a quick method when you've f*cked up h/w settings is to re-run the
install as an upgrade & usually the "upgrade process" will
fix common errors while leaving existing good stuff alone. Again I can only
state this wrt the debians (inc Ubuntu), suse/novell & Mandriva.

Adam

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