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is there a Safe Mode in Lycoris, or in general. I cannot get my Video driver to work (onboard) its a Sis 5597/5598. I have some instructions on how to Edit a file that might fix the problem (I have never done it before in Linux)but ofcourse I can't see anything after it boots up, Durr. I'm unable to recontact the person who gave me the info so I'm stuck inthe middle of nowhere dazz
Boot with lilo parameter 1, (eg "Linux 1") and you should be in runlevel 1, that is single-user mode.
Also in some distributions runlevel 2 doesn't start X.
If you boot up to a blank screen, you can also press ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to a text prompt and allow you to log in and edit your configuration. (edited: this does not switch you to run level 1)
editing above, control+alt+f1 does NOT put you into runlevel one. It's merely a hotkey combination for console TTY 1. You can do the same up to F6 generally for your 6 console TTY's. From the console you can issue "init 1" to force yourself into single user mode, but please don't confuse control+alt+f1 with runlevel 1.
Sorry for my mis-information. In any event, if you have an X configuration problem with a blank screen or garbled screen, you can press ctrl+alt+F1 to get a text prompt. You can then manually edit the configuration /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or run "xf86config" to generate a new configuration. Go back to X-windows by pressing ctrl+alt+F7, then restart X with ctrl+alt+backspace to see if your configuration changes worked to fix the problem. With the key combinations, you won't have to boot into runlevel 1 and you shouldn't have to re-boot your computer. Good luck!
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