Blank screen. Help!

[B3Nji]

I cant change the inittab, when i do the ":w" command it says readonly protection is set add ! to override. So i do, then it tells me it cant open the dam file so it cant be saved!!

[drakebasher]

You need to have root permissions to edit inittab. You should either login as root or else, after logging in as a user, do 'su -' (that's 'su' followed by a space and a dash) and then enter root password when asked. After editing the file, you can undo the su command with 'exit'. But you'll also have to be root to edit the xorg.conf file.

[B3Nji]

stupid question, i know i have set up one user when i was installing it. Thats what i logged in as. Is there another user i should log into then? How do i log into the root user??

cheers.

[drakebasher]

How do i log into the root user??

You should have been asked to set the password for the root user. At the login prompt, enter 'root' as the user name and then enter the password for 'root' when prompted. Otherwise, at the login prompt, enter the normal user's name and the normal user's password to log on and then do 'su -' to "switch user" to the root user ("-") and enter the root user's password. (the root user's name is always "root")