On 04/26/12 11:14, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/26/12 10:39, Denis Heidtmann 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? >> >> If you can't ssh in as Bill suggested, boot into recovery mode and >> edit the file. >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode >> >> galen > > > The only thing I got to when trying to get to Recovery Mode was "select > boot device". There is only one, and no recovery mode.
It sounds like you are seeing a bios menu, not grub. However, if you have managed to get to the grub menu, edit the kernel options, adding the word text to the end, then boot. This should boot into text-only, no X11. http://askubuntu.com/a/81181 galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
