[plug] monitor flashes when booting

Gavin Chester gavin.chester at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 11:43:16 WST 2008



On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 02:27 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> >You need to boot the server with a live distro
> > of choice to mount and edit your files.
> 
> You may not have to even do this. If the problem is that X is
> overdriving your monitor, switch to a virtual console by pressing
> Ctrl-Alt-F1

Ah, yes my mistake. I was thinking wrongly that if X is dead then all
the vts would also be unavailable. Sorry. So, everything else I
suggested stands, but forget the need for live distro to edit the file
in the first instance.   

Gavin




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