Can not Exit From X on Fedora Core 4

Amir61 · #1 29th December 2005, 02:30 PM

dear friends,
i recently installed FC4 on my R50e thinkpad. before that, i had FC3 and anyhting was ok, but now i want to switch to textmode (via alt+ctrl+Fx), i see just a black screen (instead of a login prompt).
Amir

Zotter · #2 29th December 2005, 06:21 PM

As root, edit /etc/inittab
Find the line that says:

Code:

id:5:initdefault:

Change it to say:

Code:

id:3:initdefault:

Just change the 5 to a 3. Sets the default runlevel to 3.
And reboot.
It'll come up in text mode (Run Level 3).
Log in, then use the command "startx" to start up the GUI.
When you shutdown X, you'll be back at a CLI.

Use: "shutdown -h now" as root or "halt" as any user to power down from the command line.
(yes, I know you likely already know some if not all of this - but there're others reading....)