On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 11:35 US/Central, Lansing, Dan wrote: > Ok….out of boredomIjust went and installedDebianon my laptop and made > a stupid mistake…. > > I started the X server with no WM installed….smart huh??? actually X comes with twm. If X is "Flashing" as you say, something is wrong with the configuration and _that's_ why X won't start. Have a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log for some possible reasons why. > > NowIhave this pretty flashing screen that will allow me to do > nothing….i have tried CTRL+ALT+BKSPC and nothing happens…samewith > CTRL”+ALT+ESC…short of power cycle nothing works….whenIrebooted it > went straight away into X > > How doIget back to my loverly CLI and fix my fsck-up? Alsowould the > fact thatIused my XF86Config from myFreeBSDinstall on the same laptop > be an issue? > Dan LansingDan Lansing > > > > -- Ben Lutgens System Administrator, Server Wizard, Email Guru US Admins, Inc _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list