On 03.29 15:44, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Have you tried looking at the other virtual consoles (Alt-F2, Alt-F3, > etc.) to see if there's anything useful? > Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Hmmmm ... interesting. > Alt-Fn (n = 1, 2, 3, ...) results in no change. > Ctrl-Alt-Del kills the X server, and we see these messages: In X, of course, you'd need to use Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch virtual consoles. James. -- E-mail address: james | Space Opera: General term for a subgenre of adventure @westexe.demon.co.uk | SF in which the men are heroic, the women beautiful, | the monsters monstrous, and the spaceships make | whooshing sounds in hard vacuum. -- Eric Raymond