Broken X recovery console.

[shihan]

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:

Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"

and change is to

Option "DontVTSwitch" "no"

Then edit /etc/inittab and find the line:

#2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2

and uncomment so it looks like:

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.

 

[chrisk]

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

chris

 

[rockman]

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

 

[patrickthebold]

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.