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[jerrylamos <jerrylamos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geir,
As soon as gdm starts it switches up a black screen and the pc stops altogether.  No keyboard keys do anything, example Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't do anything, so there's no way to get into the system at all.  The only key that works is power off.

What I need is a way to start X without starting Gnome.

I don't know enough about X to do that; the closest I came was to boot
recovery mode from the CD, at the menu choose root prompt, do nano
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to enter the ModeDebug true, then do:

/etc/init.d/gdm restart && /etc/init.d/gdm stop.

That seemed to do a gdm start followed shortly by a stop, which it did
before GNOME hung the system.  I don't know if there is enough in the
Xorg.0.log to indicate a problem.  Attached is an Xorg.0.log from that
try, as saved on a partition.  There is a whole lot of dumpregs at the
bottom, I wouldn't know from the problem or from stopping gdm.

I need a way to stop GNOME before the black screen switches up, or else
a way to start X without starting GNOME.  maybe the system will still be
alive enough to save the Xorg.0.log.  Gnome does a hard hang to
everything.  The processor chip stops executing any instructions at all.
I don't know the linux commands that well.  Let me look in a couple
books.

Jerry

** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log from resarting and stopping gdm"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27801811/Xorg.0.log.restart.stop

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