Broken X recovery console.

Discussion in 'Linux' started by shihan, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. shihan

    shihan

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    One thing i found a little annoying when trying to make X startup in KDE or gnome was when it messed up there was no way out (i ended up booting parted magic via the network - a nice little linux tool in general). So its worth doing the following IMHO:

    First, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find the line that says:
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    Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"
    
    and change is to
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    Option "DontVTSwitch" "no"
    
    Then edit /etc/inittab and find the line:
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    #2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
    
    
    and uncomment so it looks like:
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    2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
    
    Then if you need a text console to mess around with X later on, just hit ctrl-alt-f2 and you'll have a login prompt you can do a text login with... kinda handy in some situations.
     
    shihan, Aug 3, 2008
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    chrisk

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    sorry but if i set this my keyboard and the standby-mode doesn't work

    chris
     
    chrisk, Aug 10, 2008
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    rockman

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    I get keyboard problems too since the change.
    Basically, sometimes the keyboard seems to accept only CTRL+ALT+CANC or CTRL+ALT+Fx or ALT+Fx but in these last cases it doesn't behave normally: blackens the screen for a moment and then return to desktop. Beware: not functioning keyboard, cannot type anything.
    And it happens only sometimes. For example, after reboots. After shutdowns it normally returns ok.

    STRANGE THINGS
     
    rockman, Aug 24, 2008
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    patrickthebold

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    Also got keyboard problems and it was a pain to get it back to normal. Basically the keyboard was getting sent to the terminal but the screen was displaying xfce.
     
    patrickthebold, Sep 10, 2008
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