[Feisty] Normal ways to kill xserver don't work

[Matthew Flaschen]

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