"Juha Siltala" wrote
> Leon wrote:
> > "Juha Siltala" wrote
> >> Try ctrl+alt+BACKSPACE, it will kill X. Then reconfigure
> >
> > But if X starts again, he might be back at the same situation.
> > You would think if ctr+alt+F1 didnt work, then ctrl+alt+backspace
> > would not either.
>
> Yes. I'll crawl under my bed now
>
> > What's the way to change run level when booting ?
> >
> > linux single su, to get to single user mode ? then fix the XF86Config-4 ,
> > and then go back to a normal runlevel
>
> If I still dare, 'linux single' will give you single user mode.
Maybe Ctrl-alt-F1 didn't seem to work because X was running on alt-F1;
you'd also have to try Ctrl-alt-F2 to make sure the keyboard wasn't working.
He also didn't explicitly say he'd tried Ctrl-alt-delete , which hopefully has
an /etc/inittab entry that says do a shutdown and reboot.
As to making a permanent change to boot into runlevel 3 instead of 5,
probably changing /etc/inittab line
id::5: to instead be id::3: is the ticket. Would be in Redhat anyway...
And again on Redhat, I'd check that /dev/mouse was a link to or clone of
/dev/psaux {major device number 10, minor 2 if you fabricate it using mknod}
I'm a little fuzzy on how to configure just it, not the graphics card too, for X use.
You might test it is working properly by running the gpm and testing cut-n-paste.