[plug] RH Upgrade / X problem

[Richard Sharpe]

At 08:29 PM 6/30/00 +0800, you wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>Just upgraded from RH 6.0 to RH 6.2 using APC cover CD ... I just did a
>straight upgrade - no mucking around selecting / deselecting packages.
>Everything boots fine until login. I'm on the RunLevel to boot straight
>in X ... and it starts flickering the screen between graphics & text
>modes (cycles about once per second) ... which is completely useless for
>me :(

Ctrl-Alt-F1 should get you back to a console. Then log in and go to run
level 3.

Next, type 'startx >& log.log' and when the flicking starts, type
Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down the X server.

Then go and look in the log file to see if any modelines were OK, or if
there are any errors.

You may need to check the X config file /etc/X11/XF86Config.

HTH.

>X worked fine yesterday before the upgrade.
>
>I know what to do to fix it (well, where to go & play :)  how can I get
>it to settle down so I can login?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dave :)
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Regards
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