On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:01:49 +1030, Tim wrote: [...] >> I didn't mean to imply that I was going to install >> telnet-server. > > Actually, you do. Since without it, there'd be no way to telnet into > the box and do that. It's the telnet server that gives you a command > line interface when you telnet into the box. Then I won't telnet into the box. After all, I never have. > On the other hand, you don't have to remotely access a box to > reconfigure the display, you can do that on the box, itself. Just CTRL > +ALT+F1 and you're at a text-only terminal that ought to work on just > about every graphics chipset. No rebooting or changing run levels > required. Though, once you're in that text interface, you can change > run levels, if you want to or need to. e.g. To kick some services back > into life after a reconfig. Maybe. When this thing doesn't like a machine's setting, it says "out of range" for a dozen or two seconds -- and goes clear dead black, just as if the machine were shut clear down. If it does it again, I'll try Ctrl-Alt-F1; but I'll make a small wager it fails. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
