Robert Rosenwald wrote, re screen blanking:

 > -- but then it tries to go into X and the
 > screen goes black. So I tried Safe Settings
 > from Lilo and that gets me to a command
 > prompt where I can login.

Hi, Robert.

When you are having problems with X, you don't
need no stinkin "safe settings".  This is one
of the coolest intrinsic features of Linux!

The X desktop is just another application, over
and above your basic system, and you virtually
*always* have access to a command prompt -- in
fact to several command-prompt windows -- no
matter how bad things go with X, or in case you
should decide to shut X down for some reason.

Just type Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in.
Want another window?  Try Ctrl-Alt-F2 thru F6
for up to six different environments you can
have active at the same time, alongside the
GUI.

Incidentally, you can have two GUI desktops
running too, if you really want to -- both
active, not one of them dormant as is the case
with WinXP's "switch users" feature.

Here's a Question:  if I gave up one of my six
virtual consoles, could I then start up a third
full X server environment?

MS Windows sometimes responds more rapidly to
windowed operations because the GUI is so
tightly integrated to the OS.  But if your GUI
breaks, your system is broken.  Linux lets you
get to a full-powered command prompt at a
moment's notice, and in most cases to reconfigure
and bring up the GUI without rebooting.

Vic

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