16 to 32 bpp, and now it's a wreck.

[viscia]

I wanted to see whether I could force Mandrake to give me 32 bit color with my Voodoo 3 card. Went to a different terminal, typed "startx -bpp 32." It complained that I was already running a graphical interface, so I quit the normal one and did the same thing again. Got KDE instead of Gnome, quit, read some more, changed an Xserver file to start my graphical login with a "-bpp 32" setting. Didn't like me, so I changed it back. Somewhere along the line I broke something though, because now everytime X loads I get about five seconds to login before it jumps to another terminal giving me a message: "INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3 .. INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal." It just sits there 'til I press enter, but if I go back to terminal 7 (where X is supposed to be, right?) it just shows me a blinking white curser that moves with my mouse and a black screen. Now what?

*I might be making terrible use of the word terminal - Newbie thinks that's what you call the different areas you get by hitting <CTL-ALT F1-F7>

[ 20 April 2001: Message edited by: viscia ]

[bdg1983]

Don't really have an answer for you. Sorry.

Can you backout ALL the changes you made and see if that helps? Or has something been totally messed up?

[viscia]

I don't knw what else would have changed. I typed one command and edited one line of a file. I'm going to try and find where it pick runlevels, but who the heck knows..