I changed monitors from a Compaq P900 to a Compaq V75 and now once the login goes GUI, I can't see the screen. I know that the problem is the resolution, the P900 was able to display as resolution that the V75 isn't able to, but how can I fix this?

Is there some key combo at boot time to tell Redhat 9.0 not to switch into GUI mode?

Thanks....

Chuin

Update... The power of search...

I found a reference to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to drop out of the GUI and it looks like it works because I see a text screen for about 1/3 of a second. Does this mean that my text screen is too high also? is there a blind command I can type into the black screen like xconfig /default to restore the defaults?

Edit your /etc/inittab

Search for:

id:5:initdefault:

and change it to...

id:3:initdefault:

That will make your system boot in run lvl 3 (CLI). run lvl 5 is GUI.

If you are using the GRUB bootloader you can press p key and enter your password for grub. Then go to the kernel you are booting and press e. Then go to the line that starts with kernel /vmlinuz** and press e at the end of the line add init 3 then press enter then press b. This will boot you into init level 3 which is without the gui login.

Then after you fix your settings and reboot and select the kernel you use it will once again start into init level 5 which has the gui login.

this is just what I was looking for on the first try at this stire. What a great one!