Hello folks.

I am trying to install the ATI driver in my Toshiba A105-S2101 lappy with sgfxi and can't seem to drop out of x desktop using the CRTL/ALT/F1 method to the command line prompt. Is there an alternate method to do this. The usual method doesn't seem to work for me.

Here is my inxi for this machine.

System: Host antiX2 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-686-update 27 July 2010
CPU: Single core Intel Celeron M 420 (-UP-) cache 1024 KB flags (sse sse2 sse3) bmips 3192.69 clocked at 1595.855 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1280x800@60.1hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:14.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card-1 Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k v: 0.6.0 BusID: 02:00.0
Card-2 Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 at port a000 BusID: 05:07.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (0.8% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9320325AS 320.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 16G used: 2.2G (15%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 60G used: 204M (1%) fs: ext4
ID:swap-1 size: 4.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 97 Uptime 1:33 Memory 140.1/1896.7MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.12


Thanks in advance for your help.

Dave

i can't switch with the standard kernel to tty as well, i think is mepis related. when you boot the machine add 3 to the end of grub and it should boot without X. login as root and run sgfxi then.

Thanks ICE-M. That's a great trick!! Unfortunately I got an error saying that the driver was no longer supported, but I should still try it and let the maintainer know if it works. (Or something like that.) I will have to give this a try tomorrow. It's getting late here. Thanks so much for your help and fast reply.

Dave

you could try to press ctrl+alt+f2 and ctrl+alt+f3 these do the same a ctrl+alt+f1 but drop you to teh same prompt in a seeminly different manner.