On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Fouta Hafida wrote: > I am using redhat 6.2. I have a lot of interesting files stored > there. It was working properly till I configured the sound > card. Once I reboot the system everything was well mounted but > the windowx didn't want to appear. I get a black screen. I > waited for 5 min and I got a login prompt but in vain it > doesn't give even the option to enter the password. I don't > want to reinstall it cause I ll loose everything my whole > project is there. Please if anybady can help me I will be > really thankful First boot up in confirm mode (add the word "confirm" to the boot command line). This assumes you have speech working by that time in the boot process. You will be asked to confirm before each daemon or background process is started. Naturally you would refuse any you suspect. If that doesn't help, try booting up in single user or emergency mode, thus preventing most things from being started or configured. Add "s", "single", or, if things are really bad, and you want a really bare bones system, add the word "emergency" or -b to the boot line. Then you might need to comment out the stuff in /etc/modules.conf related to the hardware that might have an interrupt conflict, or whatever. You may be able to look in some of the psuedo files (really kernel tables) in /proc, such as "interrupts" to see what your other hardware is using; ie: cat /proc/ioports cat /proc/interrupts Finally, if nothing else works, you can boot up in rescue mode. Many rescue disk schemes are available on linux archive sites. Red Hat provides one of them, which can be found on their install disk. The Red Hat Linux Reference Guide has a chapter on how to do this (available on the documentation CD, or on the web, at redhat.com). For more specific help, you would need to tell us the particulars of your sound card, what interrupts and ioports are in use, what you did to configure it, and generally whatever detail might be useful. LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html