Panic! cant' log on to linux
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Mar 22 00:16:50 UTC 2005
Shelagh Manton wrote:
> Hello people,
> recently I've been trying to get on to the net using an adsl usb modem.
> This may be relevant because of course config files get altered. But
> everything was going swimmingly (except not actually being able to get
> on the net with the modem!) when I rebooted from windows to try out some
> new bits of information and the nvidia splash screen kept popping up.
> So I said to myself, go back to the old nvidia config without Open gl
> and see hwat happens. So I got out he manula for Ltools and had a look
> at the XF86config file and I had backed up the origianl file so canged
> that around. However I still can't login, this time no splash screen
> pops up but the monitor turns off and on and in between there is a
> message on the prompt about null tty (but its so quick I can't read it
> fast enough)
> Now I know I can access the files with Ltools but I don't know what to
> change)
> Any ideas!
Try booting in single user mode, then run
system-config-display --reconfig
to fix your X setup. If you don't know how to boot in single user mode:
1. Select your kernel from the grub display and hit "e".
2. Scroll down to the line that starts with "kernel" and hit "e" again.
3. Add " single" to the end of the line (yes, a space, then the word
"single") and hit ENTER.
4. Hit "b" to boot.
The system will boot up to a "#" root command prompt. Run the
"system-config-display --reconfig" command at the "#" prompt. When
you're done, type in "exit" at the "#" prompt and the system should
reboot back to GUI mode.
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