🚀 go-pugleaf

Folks, thanks all.
I've reloaded the machine.

Dragan Colak <dragan_colak@gmx.de>:
>Either you have a backup of /etc/X11/XF86Config

Is this done automatically?

>or you use sax2 on a
>console to reconfigure your display.

How? looking at a text interface to me is like looking a a brick wall. I
tried to type 'help' after root login but all the options just ran off the
top of the page. In MS-DOS there was a /p command to keep text within the
page -does the text interface have this (more for 'dir' command results).


Tom <no_spam@anti_spam.com>:
>login from your text concole.  Then use vi to change the config file back
to
>one that works.

Again, how? I know how to use 'pico' -is this the same?

>SuSE may have possibly made a backup file. If so just change the name.
>
># vi /etc/X11/XF86Config

Where would this backup be kept? moving and renaming would not be a problem
if I could just find the damm file. Again you have the 'vi' command in
there, it would help if I knew what it did.

What files should one make backups of?

Jens Nixdorf <jens.nixdorf@gmx.de>:
>console-login is ok, but telling someone, who doesnt know much about
>linux, to use "vi" is really hardcore ;-)

Agreed, I would use text interface a small bit -but only running in from
telnet to my own web site. That's all. I know nothing when it really comes
down to it. The only reason I installed this OS was because I was told it
was very good, safe, secure. So far, I agree. I am only coustomizing it
right now, but when I get down to actually using it I'm sure I'll be in love
with it.

Joe <ThisIsNot@AnEmailAddress.huh>:
>Have you tried sax2 from console mode?
>
>Or delete or rename /etc/X11/XF86config then try sax2.
.
sax2 -huh? deleting or renaming is no problem, but trying to get "sax2"
(whatever it is) to run is another story. I did find out the it was
something to do with X Server that was causing the problem, if I could have
reloaded just that GUI thing I would have been fine I'd say.


Dr Stupid <drstupid@bulbous.freeserve.co.uk>
>And as a handy hint for next time, learn how to use rcs to keep
>multiple, labelled backups of important files like XF86Config. Using
>rcs lets you go back any number of versions of the file, without
>having .bak1, .bak2, and so on cluttering up your directories.

Can I not just backup the files manually to a floppy or are they too large?
What does "rcs" do?

Thank you all ===problem fixed anyway; I reloaded everything.

Joe