On Wednesday 27 May 2015 19:44:38 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 08:37 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI stuff, and > > drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the nVidia driver, > > etc., just type startx. > > If you use gdm or similar I think that usually just leads to the display > manager restarting. Yes, that is my experience. It doesn't get rid of X. Lisi