text login

Whil Hentzen linuxnews at hentzenwerke.com
Thu Jul 29 23:01:48 UTC 2004


On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:56, Sameer Kamat wrote:
> Hi
>     I have the default in inittab to run at  5(GUI mode). It works fine,
> but if I hit CTRL+ALT+F1 I do
> not see anything but a black screen. If I set the inittab default to
> runlevel 3,
> then I do get to a text login screen, however when I run startx to get to
> the GUI I lose the text console.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on what I should be doing to fix this ?

This might provide some context, although it won't give you the answer to your 
'black screen' question.

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/wp/fromgui_totext.htm

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