Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn@tpg.com.au> wrote: > My screen didn't like a power surge that we had, so that's not an > option at the moment. However, I solved the problem by going back > to kernel 2.6.31 and removing the xorg.conf file altogether. perhaps disabling the kernel driver for your video controller would have had the same effect, i.e., forcing it to start in text mode and not to load the driver. There's probably a kernel option for this.