Can't Switch Betweem TTY And X

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 4 17:24:45 UTC 2008


On 07/03/2008 08:53 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> Getting time to do this now but, don't see an option 4
> when boot to recovery mode. No menu whatsoever. Typing
> xfix on command line says can't find command.  So how
> do you get to option 4 xfix from the root prompt?

Argh... I forgot about this:

<quote>
Am running gutsy x86_64 and can't get a
</quote>

You only get the xfix option in Hardy. My mistake. You'll probably have
to stick with
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
and
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

> 
>> Do you remember what you did in the dpkg-reconfigure
>> debconf that may
>> have created the problem? Perhaps enabling
>> framebuffers etc? Perhaps if
>> you do it again the menus will jog your memory.
>> 
> When I run dpkg-reconfig debconf now it only asks for
> interface to use(chose interactive) and priority level
> to use(from memory) whereas originally there were
> configuration questions for several items to
> configure.  Don't know how to get the original
> configuration menu which makes things difficult to
> sort out.  Any thoughts on this?

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Here's a graphic explanation:
<http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/how_to_fix_your_computers_graphics_with_dpkg-reconfigure>






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