[Feisty] Normal ways to kill xserver don't work
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Mar 18 08:22:56 UTC 2007
Ari Torhamo wrote:
>>> I'd be greatfull for help in this because I can only have 60Hz refresh rate on my monitor at the moment (that's all I can get with the vesa driver).
>> Are you using grub? If so, restart, go to the grub menu screen (you may
>> have to push ESC), press e (I think) to edit the command line, and add
>> the word single at the end (remove "quiet" and "splash" if they're
>> there). That should boot without X.
>
>
> Hmmm... this produced a seeminly normal boot to the graphical desktop.
> The line "quiet" was there, but "splash" wasn't.
Then you didn't do what I said. :) Try again, and be sure to remove
*both* "quiet" and "splash", and add "single" (no quotes for any).
Reply back with the grub command you run, and the result.
P.S. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt-F1 should work, but I've had them
fail on Ubuntu Edgy.
Thanks,
Matt
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