Or there's always a liveCD / thumbdrive. I like puppy-linux for these kinds of things.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Evan Heidtmann <[email protected]>wrote: > Hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in outside of X, edit the file, then go back to X > with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. > > If F1 doesn't give you anything useful, try F2, F3, F4, etc. > > -Evan > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Denis Heidtmann < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > Help! In attempting to shut off the touchpad, I edited > > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, changing one line parameter > > from "on" to "off". Now the only thing that works is the touchpad and > its > > two buttons. Nothing on the keyboard works--I cannot log in, since I > > cannot enter my password. I can log in as Guest, but I cannot edit any > > files since I cannot type. I assume that if I could get a terminal > before > > X starts, i might have a chance to do something, but I do not know how. > > > > Suggestions? > > > > -Denis > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
