Display question

[Cian Duffy]

Theres certainly a proper way to get back to text mode, but when my
iBook had a corrupted display I found that killing X with
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace five times in a row returned you to a shell.

What you're seeing corrupted is gdm, the login manager. Your issues
woulds like a refresh rate issue with using a CRT monitor

Cian


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:59:28 -0600, Marilyn Fulper
<fulpermarilyn at uams.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the list and am not sure if my subscription has been accepted or
> not, but thought  would try because I am under a deadline.
> 
> I think I have loaded Yellowdog 4.0.1 on a mac mini. I have rebooted and
> that's about as far as I have gotten.  I can't read my monitor...the image
> is vibrating so fast, I can't really see what to do. I used  the text
> install because of this issue but now I can't see do do anything else.  The
> monitor is an old 17 inch mac monitor.  I have a newer 15 inch flat screen
> but it  doesn't have the right  plug (ADC and I need DVI) The mini came with
> an  adaptor but it is  VGA to DVI.
> 
> I think I can make out Yellowdog and  what may be a log in box underneath
> but I have never worked with linux before so I am clueless. Is there  a way
> to  leave the GUI and go to text?
> 
> Marilyn
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