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From: Michael Negrete (dorsaj@best.com)
Subject: X Login 
Newsgroups: linux.redhat.misc
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Date: 1999/07/17 

Right now my mouse is not configured properly for X and I don't know how to
get to a terminal.  I also have Redhat loading X on startup. Is there anyway
to bypass the X startup while linux loads? Or can you tell me how to open up
a terminal in Gnome without a mouse?

Thanks
Mike Negrete

From: Fyddler (fyddler@my-deja.com)
Subject: Re: X Login 
Newsgroups: linux.redhat.misc
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Date: 1999/07/21 

In article <37929afa$0$221@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
  "Michael Negrete"  wrote:
> Right now my mouse is not configured properly for X and I don't know how to
> get to a terminal.  I also have Redhat loading X on startup. Is there anyway
> to bypass the X startup while linux loads? Or can you tell me how to open up
> a terminal in Gnome without a mouse?
>
> Thanks
> Mike Negrete
>
>

Give XF86Setup a shot. It'll let you configure everything as generic
stuff so you can have a fallback position when you push the limits of
your hardware. That's what I did until I could pick up the linux
voodoo3 driver.

Now if I can only figure out how to get linux to do my DSL's DHCP
server I can ditch winblows altogether.

 -Fyddler

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Message 3 in thread 
From: Robert S (berzerke@flashmail.com)
Subject: Re: X Login 
Newsgroups: linux.redhat.misc
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Date: 1999/07/22 

Michael Negrete wrote:

> Right now my mouse is not configured properly for X and I don't know how to
> get to a terminal.  I also have Redhat loading X on startup. Is there anyway
> to bypass the X startup while linux loads? Or can you tell me how to open up
> a terminal in Gnome without a mouse?
>
> Thanks
> Mike Negrete

I don't have a complete answer, but whenever X starts acting to badly, there is
always Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.  This should kill X.   From there, you may get to
the terminal.

If that fails, try telnetting in from another machine, su'ing and then set INIT
3.  The INIT 3 makes Linux start up in command line mode.  INIT 5 is startup in
X.
Message 4 in thread 
From: hglawson@nr.infi.net (hglawson@nr.infi.net)
Subject: Re: X Login 
Newsgroups: linux.redhat.misc
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Date: 1999/07/21 

>  "Michael Negrete"  wrote:
>> Right now my mouse is not configured properly for X and I don't know how to
>> get to a terminal.  I also have Redhat loading X on startup. Is there anyway
>> to bypass the X startup while linux loads? Or can you tell me how to open up
>> a terminal in Gnome without a mouse?

Hi Mike, I don't know if this answers your question, but on most Linux
setups Ctrl-Alt-f2 (or f3...) will open up a virtual console in place of
your X window.  Here you can log in as root--or whatever--and try to fix
things up.

-- 
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
hglawson@nr.infi.net

Left: Damon Van Dam in 2002 Right: sketch drawn in 1999 portraying the man wanted for questioning in Michael Negrete's disappearance. Witnesses reported seeing a strange man on the dorm floor where Michael lived and were able to provide an accurate description of this man.

Thanks for posting these, Kerensky.

This last guy, Lawson, isn't the same Lawson who checked the computers for Feldman, is he?

Unposted.com's connection between Negrete and Damon is frightening, especially when seeing the other coincidences in child abductions, swinging parents, and nonbarking dogs.