FreeBSD: XOrg failure. I have no control over my computer
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FreeBSD: XOrg failure. I have no control over my computer
I recently installed FreeBSD to try it out. Today I set up my XOrg server, changed the /etc/ttys to start xdm, installed NVidia's drivers and rebooted to test it all. There was a problem with my computer and it is still trying to load FBSD's agp.ko. I know how to fix this problem, but I lost all control over my computer. When I boot, x flashed over and over as if it were starting but never times out and lets me drop into a console. How can I boot it to a place where I can edit some files? Nothing seems to be working for me, and it is getting somewhat frustrating that I have lost complete control of the OS.
Re: FreeBSD: XOrg failure. I have no control over my computer
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Originally posted by Harpune I recently installed FreeBSD to try it out. Today I set up my XOrg server, changed the /etc/ttys to start xdm, installed NVidia's drivers and rebooted to test it all. There was a problem with my computer and it is still trying to load FBSD's agp.ko. I know how to fix this problem, but I lost all control over my computer. When I boot, x flashed over and over as if it were starting but never times out and lets me drop into a console. How can I boot it to a place where I can edit some files? Nothing seems to be working for me, and it is getting somewhat frustrating that I have lost complete control of the OS.
If your FreeBSD machine is in a network or you have network card installed on it and did configure it.
You can ssh in to your machine using another machine.
I'm confused... did booting into single user mode not work or did we skip that step?
I've done this before myself (had X misconfigured and in /etc/ttys) but I was always able to boot into single user mode, fsck the disks, remount then rw, and then fix the problem -- which involved me just turning xdm to off until I debugged the issue so I could fix it in multi-user mode.
Did we even try this? It is similar to what needs to be done with a live CD... and it isn't like X is going to load in single user mode.
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