Starting up

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Nitai @ ComputerOil wrote:

>Hi there
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>Keyboard is working, I also know that I can get to the shell, but the problem is, that somehow I am in an endless loop. X is coming up, black screen, terminal window then black screen again, and so on. I can not get to the shell.
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>TIA.
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>Nitai
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>PS: I just saw that my email got trough two times with a different topic. I apologize for that.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Pete Nesbitt [mailto:pete at linux1.ca]
>>Sent: Freitag, 19. November 2004 04:36
>>To: Nitai @ ComputerOil;General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: Re: Starting up
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>>On November 18, 2004 01:45 pm, nitai at computeroil.com wrote:
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>>>HI sll
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>>>I got the problem thst I was running my laptop in a docking ststion
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>>today
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>>>connected with a Logitech USB wireless keyboard. RH saw the new hardware
>>>and installed the new driver.
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>>>Now at home RH asked me at startup if I want to keep the driver or not.
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>>I
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>>>keeped the driver and now X does not even start up anymore. Is there any
>>>way I can log into the terminal and remove the driver?
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>>>Point now is that X is in a endless loop and I cant even get to the
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>>shell.
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>>>TIA.
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>>>Nitai
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>>Hi,
>>If your keyboard is functional, while X is looping, hit ctrl-alt-F1 (or F2
>>or
>>F3..).
>>That should get you to a console login. Login as root.
>>You can stop X with "telinit 3", you may need to hit the enter key again
>>to
>>get back to a prompt.
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>>You can edit /etc/inittab so X doesn't start at boot:
>>near the top, probably first non-commented line is:
>>id:5:initdefault:
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>>change the 5 to a 3 and save the file.
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>>Then enter "telinit 6" to reboot.
>>If the keyboard is ok, you can use "telinit 5" or "startx" to test X. If
>>it
>>works, go back to /etc/inittab and chage the 3 back to a 5.
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>>--
>>Pete Nesbitt, rhce
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you should consider booting single and then try what Pete already told you.