I installed a new graphical greeter which was corrupted.When I boot into Fedora core 3 I get a message "the graphical greeter you installed is corrupt" and an ok button.how do I restore the graphical login screen to the default one ?
Editing /etc/inittab and changing default run level to (gui mode) as 5 instead of 3(command mode) should help. There are totally 6 run levels, i know four outta them. Iam not sure though
runlevel 1 ===> Single user mode
runlevel 3 ===> text mode
runlevel 5 ===> GUI mode
runlevel 6 ===> restart.
runlevel 4 and 2 are unknown to me.
pressed a while grub was booting and typed 3 so it booted into runlevel mode3 that is text mode ,logged in and typed startx and then changed the greeter.
How comfortable are you with compiling a new kernel? Also what Graphics Card do you have? If you have a decent card (>64MB) and know how to compile your own kernel then you can have a look at *www.bootsplash.org/
I have never been able to get bootsplash working (thats another place where my luck never favours me). It might work for you so try it out