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Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 November 2002, 05:58

I installed slackware and for some reason i chose the framebuffer for the console... well it doesnt work, my screen is just blurry.
Is there a way to boot into slackware with the normal console and change it to normal console somehow??

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: voidmain on 18 November 2002, 06:17

Do you mean boot it into a run level other than 5 (not X)? If so you should be able to do "linux single" at the LILO prompt, edit your /etc/inittab to have an initdefault to 3.

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 November 2002, 06:34

no...  linux single still uses the framebuffer for the console. (and it already boots to init 3)

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: voidmain on 18 November 2002, 06:40

Ahh, I gotcha. I think that's controlled via kernel parameters. What does your lilo.conf look like? I'll do some Googlin'. Would it be controlled by the vga param? Search in progress....

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 November 2002, 06:42

hmmm... i could probly ssh into the computer after it starts up and switch it maybe.

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 November 2002, 06:49

ya i just started teh computer waited a while until i figured it was on, then sshed into it and changed the lilo.conf and it works fine now.

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: voidmain on 18 November 2002, 06:53

What did you set it to "vga=normal"?

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 November 2002, 07:05

yes

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: RudeCat7 on 18 November 2002, 07:20

That's why I love Slack! Life is boring with Suse, but I'm still married to it.

So anyhow, Void Main...

Being that you have the 1337 skills, why do you use Redhat instead of a trim distro such as: Gentoo, Slackware, or Debian?  (http://smile.gif)

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: voidmain on 18 November 2002, 07:39

I used to use Slackware.... before there was a RedHat that is. I also use Debian on some servers (mostly on old Sun Sparc hardware) which is an excellent distro. Without Debian there wouldn't be a Knoppix, which is probably the best CD distro.

I prefer RedHat on servers and desktops though. It is more widely used and has more support across the board (applications are usually ported to RedHat first). There are too many other reasons to list as to why I prefer RedHat.

I started using Linux before there were any distros. SLS was the first distro I used. Then when Slackware came out it was a far better distro than SLS. Then RedHat came out and I found it to be better than the first Slackware version. I switched back and forth up until RedHat 3 and they've been out front of everyone from that point on as far as I'm concerned. And without RedHat there would be no Mandrake that so many people like (I'm not a Mandrake fan by any stretch).

But I think it's great that people try different things. I just hope in their trials they give RedHat a look. Those RedHat guys should pay me for marketing!

Title: i fucked up my slackware too
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 18 November 2002, 08:55

When I want something powerful and back-to-basics, I use Slack. When I get lazy, I use Red Hat because everything is so damn easy to use.

So I have a distro for every mood   :D