Andrew Errington wrote:
If it does that again, use CTL+ALT+F1 to get a console and sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fix it. You do need to reboot afterwards but you can use the reboot command rather than powering off.killing the x/g/kdm process is faster than rebooting.You can also CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart X (assuming it hasn't crashed) A
No, ctrl-alt-backspace stops X, the x/g/kdm process starts it again. eg if you started X with startx, it won't restart after ctrl-alt-backspace.
