[Gllug] Isa Ethernet Card + X

[tet at accucard.com]

>I only started PANICKING when I logged into my Redhat7.1 Partition
>and realised that it too was experiencing problems with X. It
>detected the new Ethernet Card, helped set-up the IP address etc.
>then continued the boot up process. It then started these series of
>flickers when it was about to ask for my Username/Password.

Note that you would usually be able to do ctrl-alt-F6 at that point
to get to a command prompt login. If that works, "telinit 2" to get
the machine to a sane state where you can start fault finding.

>Now ordinarily.. I'm as cool as a cucumber for a Linux Newbie, But
>when I'm di sallowed full and total access on my OWN box... I begin
>to panic.
>
>Guys, Girls... What do I do?

First thing to do is to boot without X. Enter "linux 2" at the LILO
prompt to boot to a non-X environment with network dependent services
disabled (NFS, NIS etc.)

Then try and see what the problem is from there. Run "startx" and see
if you get any errors. Check /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages for
supicious looking entries.

Tet

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