my machine crashed and i rebooted it. now my knoppix won't go into graphical mode. it'll only go into text mode... how do i switch back to graphical mode...?

try to enter this command

startx

still not working? then probably you experience the hardware failure.

This post has been edited by APIITian: Mar 22 2005, 02:05 AM

eleborate your problem in detail. how that it happen, and what did u mean by crashed. so we can get the problem in detail

Perhaps you can try startx or change through command line

# vi /etc/inittab

chg
id:3:initdefault:
to
id:5:initdefault:

only if you know what you're doing.

This post has been edited by screwed: Mar 23 2005, 06:53 PM

May I ask what is this for??? inittab is for what??
and what r u actually doing by changing id:3:initdefault to id:5:initdefault??

Just for curiosity
thanks!!

this is to change the default run level, runlevel 3 is text and 5 is graphical

may be we should check his /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
if he not done anytiing to his pc, how came his /etc/inittab change to runlevel 3

may b is /etc/X11/xorg.conf have change a little bit.

try to post the whole /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the error message when you issue command "startx" here , may be somebody will check for you.