On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:57 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Incidentally, couldn't you get to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F1?
Not always with some recent XOrg problems. It can make a complete mess of the display. On one system I had scrambled graphics, on another completely black screens. You did have to boot in text-only mode, so that XOrg was never started, before you could see what you were doing.