Troubleshooting
When XFree86 starts up, text flashes on the screen, the monitor clicks and then repeats too fast to stop it.
In almost all cases, this indicates an error in your XF86Config file when your system is at runlevel 5.
Runlevel 5 means that XFree86 automatically starts up in nearly all distributions. This is because of an entry such as the following in your /etc/inittab:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm –nodaemon
The respawn flag tells init to restart this program if it ever dies. So when XFree86 starts up, it reads its configuration file, terminates with an error, and then init immediately restarts it. Because XFree86 switches your monitor's video mode when it starts up, you won't be able to type any commands at the console while this ...
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