[lug] getting KRUD up

[Holshouser, David]

some times you can fix the funny colors/blinking text stuff by giving the
reset command to a terminal.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Stimits [mailto:stimits at idcomm.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 6:05 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] getting KRUD up
> 
> 
> "Kenneth D. Weinert" wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I've managed to install the KRUD distro I picked up 
> on Thursday, now
> > have just two problems.
> > 
> > I'm looking for hints on where to look for solutions.
> > 
> > 1) X is hosed - in fact, X is *so* hosed that it screws up 
> my alternate
> > text terminals - I get just blinking colored boxes on them, nothing
> > recognizable at all.
> 
> Don't know the answer to the rest. But if you can login to a terminal,
> during the blinking, and type this as root:
> init 3
> 
> Then you'll go to text mode and it won't try to keep respawning X.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> If I type blindly I can do whatever I need to. The X
> > display that comes up is sort of recognizable (ie, images 
> are recognizable)
> > but I have blinking lines, etc. The card/monitor are just 
> as I have them on
> > windows so I'm not sure what I've done wrong here. I have 
> manually inputted
> > the H and V resolution (from the monitor manual) and the 
> card (3Dfx Voodoo
> > Banshee, 16M) is properly recognized. I've even re-run 
> Xconfigurator to no
> > avail. Oh, one note: I was able to correctly use the 
> graphical install.
> > 
> > 2) I have (as you can tell) @Home cable - right now it is 
> hooked in to my
> > USB port. Can I use it that way or do I need to get a NIC 
> and plug it in
> > that way. A pointer on where to look to get the network 
> stuff configured
> > (including dhcp) would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
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