[lug] Getting X started - or, more properly, stopped

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

C-x will get back to the text screen - turned out not to be as hard as it 
usually is for me.

Thanks again for your help - I still don't know why a working installation 
would go belly up the next time I booted tho.

At 07:37 PM 9/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Thus spake Kenneth D. Weinert (kenweinert at home.com):
>
> > That much I know - what I can't sort out is how to get logged in while 
> it's
> > doing it's spawn-spamming thing.
>
>What I was aiming at was getting into runlevel 3 at boot and starting X 
>from there until you have what you want. Then switching back once you're 
>certain it's safe. I haven't found a way to kill X when it's 
>"spawn-spamming" at boot, so I normally do it that way.
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