>> What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? >> That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few >> X-server lockups with Fedora due to misconfiguration by the installer. > Upstream X.Org. I'm sure if you search it, you will find lots of > discusions about it. You can always switch to a terminal and kill X > manually (or just the process hanging), or you can re-enable it in an > xorg.conf if you really want to. To the OP: If you are using a Live CD, you will not be able to try Suvayu Ali's kernel argument(s) and other suggestions, you will have to download a non-live CD/DVD. To all: (With apologies, because the below is for the record as a response to the post quoted above because, looking at the thread history, my earlier response and the one below are somewhat OT) You can enable ctrl+alt+backspace through the GUI: System - Preferences - Keyboard - Layout - Layout Options -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines