The 03.09.13 at 23:44, Jan Elders wrote:
After having made changes in my troublesome XF86Config in console mode, I did startx as user, and ....... got a black screen again. I could not find any other way to kill this than cutting power (which I hate to do). What do you mean by "easier to kill" ? Is there a method I'm not aware of ? CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work !
It is easier because if you can kill it, it gets you back to text mode. If init 5 gets you a blank screen, killing it will simply restart it again, which is useless. Try: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace -- some times works; at least, it should always work, if not to far gone. Ctrl-Alt-F1 .. F6 -- if it works, and if you get a working console. Ctrl-C on the same console as you typed startx should kill it. If you have another machine, telnet/ssh in and kill something.
I'm getting pretty puzzled by all these nvidia driver problems. ;-(
And you have me puzzled... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson