[GLLUG] Re: Booting into text mode

[Sean]

Why don't you just disable X at startup, then login and start it there
with startx? then you can just kill the x-server and restart it.



On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Reza Beha wrote:

> Most of the time, runlevel 5 goes without a hitch.
> Occasionally, the video is unreadable.  At those times
> it will be quicker to drop to level 3 and retry level
> 5 than it will be to reboot, possibly multiple times
> until the video problem corrects itself.
>
> Please let me know if you can think of a better
> solution!  Creativity is our friend.
>
> --- Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Reza Beha <reza_beha@yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> > > Thanks, everyone, for all the help!
> > >
> > > I tried Ctrl-Alt-F1 and it does the trick.  From
> > > there, my current plan is to drop to runlevel 3 to
> > > kill any X processes, then go back into runlevel 5
> > > (using the "telinit" command).  I prefer using X
> > > because it offers a higher-resolution shell window
> > > than what I get in text-only mode, and it looks
> > cool
> > > to boot (no pun intended).
> >
> > So your system boots in runlevel 5, you switch it to
> > runlevel 3,
> > then you switch it back to runlevel 5?  Net effect
> > being: zero.
> > What's the point?
> > --
> > "...dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en
> > temps un amiral
> >  pour encourager les autres."
> > --Voltaire, _Candide_
>
>
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