Hey Jon, I hope you dont blame your mouse for murder. What your need is to tell init to go into another runlevel. You can do this at the boot prompt, just type the runlevel after the kernelname you what to boot. lilo> linux 2 I dont know which runlevel and bootloader you have (either I know your kernels name) depends on your distribution/installation ... 2 might be a good guess. Hope that helps, BUT .... ---8<--- ... but what I whant to know: What kind of answer to newbie questions in this mailing list is apropriate? 1) Only to the newbie ? 2) Only to the list (xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx) 3) Both 4) Ignore such questions ??? Thankx, xfree86 :-) On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Jon Mirhadi wrote: > Hey... > > [...] > when the keyboard doesn't work (can't do CTRL+ALT+F2 for example). Is there > a way to stop x from loading...? > > Any help would be appreciated... > Thanks in advance for your help. > Jon _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86