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

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

OK, this is very odd.

I've had problems getting X to work on this ancient video card of mine 
(Monster Fusion/Voodoo Banshee.) With Sean's advice I finally got back to a 
3.3.6 version of the X server. I still had problems, but finally had the 
brilliant idea of re-running Xconfigurator :)

This actually appeared to work. I could start X both as root and as a 
normal user. Then I had to reboot into Windows so my wife could play her 
games (hmmm, about time to throw together a few more odds and ends and make 
a system for her :)

The mistake I made at the end of Xconfigurator was to tell it to auto start 
Xwindows when I log in.  Every time now that I've tried to start up linux 
and it tries to go into X mode it fails.  You can see it try what appears 
to be 3 different modes, then I'll get about 3 seconds of a text screen 
with a login prompt.  This, unfortunately, is insufficient to actually log in.

Any pointers on how to get this out of init 5 and back into init 3 will be 
*greatly* appreciated.

Also any ideas on why a working X setup would fail the next time I reboot 
the machine would be appreciated also.

Thanks.