respawning too fast

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
>On Tuesday 03 July 2007 8:07:58 am Machiel Richards wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
...
>> >             However after rebooting the server I started getting the
>> > following messge:
>> >
>> >             INIT: ID "X" (x = 1-6) respawning too fast: disabled for 5
>> > minutes.
...
>> Have you tried Ctrl-Alt F1 ( or F2,3 ..) to have the login-prompt
>> screen ?
>>
>> Yes, I have tried that and nothing, it just continues on and on in the
>> loop.
>> In the meantime I have redone the server and have now downloaded the
>> previous version of that driver to see if that will make any difference
>> to it.
>
>(Thank you for responding in plain text. Also, please bottom post, or post 
>in-line to ease in message readability.)
>
>After going to a console via Ctrl-Alt-F[1-5] switch to runlevel 3 to disable 
>X. (login as root and type 'telinit 3' and the command prompt). Then you 
>should be able to reconfigure X, run 'startx' from the command line to test 
>it, repeatedly if necessary. Once you have a working config, then you can 
>return to runlevel 5.

Either boot the machine in init state 3 or switch to it, then run the
program ``sax2'' at the root prompt to get into the X configuration
program.  This should figure out the videa enough to get you to a basic
screen with generica monitor.  Click on the Configure button to specify the
proper monitor configuration, resolutions, etc.

Bill
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