UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear All,

Someone please help me.. I can't afford to lose the luster from my precious RedHat Linux 7.3 install (which I was able to accomplish painstaking efforts!)..

Here is my problem...

I don't know why this is happening... but whenever I'm booting into my RHL 7.3 partition on my laptop, I'm getting only a text mode logon... I've poked into /etc/inittab in the same text mode and it sure contains this line...

id:5:initdefault:

so no problem on that end it seems...

Could anybody please throw some light why I'm not getting my usual X11 gui logon screen?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers!
Vishnu.

Have you checked the log files? /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86*.log might have some info. Have you tried starting X manually (ie 'startx') ?

thanks a lot PxT, but alas I grew imapatient - backed up and re-installed my RHL 7.3, and it has taken care of every thing... also it nicely preserved my xp partition...

now I'm doing a research as to why it happened... and also studying the usage of x11 commands including the one you suggested...

Thanks again!
Vishnu.