On Friday 03 June 2016 15:32:14 David Wright wrote: > I did discover that it's obvious if you try to Xorg -configure > while X is running
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza.... This is why I was trying to do it at single user level, to be *certain* that X wasn't running. :-) X is there, but unusable because the resolution is taking almost everything off the screen. Ubuntu is such a GUI based OS that I am getting nowhere fast. But I have had some practice with ssh, with which I am getting more confident. I do now know roughly how to use it and just have to learn more. Ubuntu is and was an aside. I just have to decide what I want to do to nuke it and get my Debian back unmolested. Thanks everyone for all the help. I'll do a "SOLVED" and a proper report on my original post over the weekend. Lisi