[Discuss] The T61p meets Kubuntu

[Steven Kurylo]

> I suspect in your case even if
> ctrl-c actually worked, it would only work for a microsecond until
> gdm|kdm|xdm would throw you back into X in the bricked condition again.
> Thus, you would perceive your computer as continuously bricked.

Display managers will only try starting X so many times before giving
up.  Last time I had issues I think it was three times.

As well I had some version of debian actually bring up their text
based X configuration dialog, so you could try reconfiguring X;
perhaps because you have a new video card.

However if there is an actual serious bug in the video driver which
corrupts the dislpay, there is nothing the kernel or anything else can
do about it.

> My advice to Ubuntu (and all Linux distributions) is to always allow the
> startx way of starting X as an option to deal with situations like right now
> when X configuration is

Thats what runlevels and single user mode are for.

-- 
Steven Kurylo