On 11/01/14 19:23, Anthony K wrote: > On 01/11/14 13:51, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Google has not turned up any useful information. Does anyone have and >> ideas what more I can try? > > Try Ctrl+Alt+F1 then: > > $ sudo /sbin/service gdm restart > > If you are not using gdm, then substitute your desktop manager. > > I had similar issue on my laptop and whenever my screen comes up garbled > (happens once in a while on my Ubuntu Unity desktop), restarting lightdm > always sorts the issue for me. > > > Cheers, > ak. >
Hey ak, Ctrl+Alt+F1 gets me the GUI screen with the mouse pointer as I described in the email that you replied to. On that posting I said that, on that page, all key strokes are ignored. There is no terminal to type any "/sbin/service gdm restart" into. Ctrl+Alt+F2 gets me a login prompt. I log in as root which eliminates the need for sudo. /sbin/service gdm restart gets me: gdm: unrecognized service /user/sbin/gdm restart gets me: ** (gdm-binary:6035): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager ** (gdm-binary:6035): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out It seems that gdm is not a service. I get the same response from the system that I'm typing at right now. Are you perhaps suggesting that I should restart the display manager? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ **** _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos