Change to character mode?

[Jeff Vian]

Edward wrote:

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> Robert A wrote:
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>> I have a Red Hat Fedora installation that was setup with the incorrect
>> screen resolution.
>> My ATI Mach64 (whoohoo) card is easily capable of 1024x768.
>> I made the mistake (?) of selecting a Generic screen of that resolution.
>> The GUI login screen comes up as an incomprehensible fluttering 
>> screen as
>> though the horizontal hold was way, way off!
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>> I tried CTRL-X to go to character mode to no avail -
>> I'm currently at the Linux rescue prompt to try to figure out how to 
>> change
>> the resolution to 800x600, or force the system to boot into character.
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> Ctrl-X? Where'd you get that one from?
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> To stop an X session - it's Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.


Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will not work to go to text if booted to runlevel 5.

Ctrl-Alt-F2 will work.

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> I know you can type "linux single" at the rescue prompt to go into 
> single user mode. You could then fix up the XFree config file from there.
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> Regards,
> Ed.
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