[ale] RH6: Switch to tty0 & back to Xwin

Mike Nolan mdnolan at concentric.net
Sun Oct 10 17:16:54 EDT 1999


What have I done?

I was booting up into GUI interface, and was reading a Howto, where it said
something like "you can switch back and forth into tty windows by pressing
Ctrl-Alt-F1 or between different tty with Alt-F1, ..F2 and so on.

I did this and got a new terminal log in, which I logged in as root.

The problem is I can't seem to get back out of this mode, and I can't find
the howto I was in, to read further about this.

If I do a complete shutdown and boot now, I get the same terminal login
even though I have "Init default runlevel" set to 5.  

I can run "startx" from this terminal window but why is it not booting to
level 5? 

How do I undo what I have done?

Thanks, (this is really a helpful list, unlike some others....)

Mike\n;
Dallas, GA 






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