On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Ricardo Campos wrote:
My system boots straight into an X environment (KDE). How can I stop X and go to the command line and startx 2> xoutput (xoutput being a fairly good name for the output of x ;) )
You can log for the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or something similar depending on your distro)
or you can try this to get to a virtual terminal Ctrl+Alt+F1 (F1 - F6 will put you on virtual terminals Ctrl+Alt+F7 will get you back to your normal login) and login from there.
When you are on the virtual terminal you can then type
startx -- :1 2> xoutput
this will start a new instance of X on the terminal Ctrl+Alt+F8 you can now logout (if you can't logout you can kill the Xserver with Ctrl+Alt+backspace) of this X session and look at the file xoutput.
HTH (If I have not made this very clear, please ask again) Adam