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There are complaints that Linux is becoming more Windows-like :-) What happens when you do ctrl-alt-f2. Do you get a prompt? If so, then log in and force the X server to reload. Ctrl-alt-backspace is now turned off by default.=20 On 05/01/2010 06:15 PM, Nathan Meyers wrote: > Bad news on my Averatec laptop - the X server is out of order. It > appears to be coming up - the text display is gone - but I'm getting a > black screen with no cursor and no desktop. I'm poking around to see > what it will take to set it right; haven't found anything about this > so far online. > > Nathan > > > Jerry Feldman wrote: >> I was able to upgrade to Lucid Lynx on Thursday night on my laptop wit= h >> virtually no apparent issues. I was surprised that VirtualBox was able= >> to run after the upgrade. Additionally, the wireless connected >> flawlessly although I have a Broadcom chip The fw-cutter dialog box >> asked if I wanted the firmware. I was a bit surprised that the wireles= s >> came up automatically since after my reinstall of Karmic, I've had to >> manually massage it. I have not really performed any other tests yet, >> but it did come up with no problems. >> >> =20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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