[GLLUG] Re: Booting into text mode

[Reza Beha]

Does startx provide the ability to kill and restart
the x-server where going to runlevel 5 doesn't?  If
so, this sounds like a good solution.

If not, I don't think it would accomplish anything
since text mode is always fine until X is started.

--- Sean <picasso@madflower.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> > 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?


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