Baho Utot wrote: > A black screen with an X in the middle and no response from the KBD > until a hard reset. I think the x was looking for the kbd that never > showed up. > <cntrl><backspace> was ignored as was <cntrl><alt>Fx So if X didn't see the keyboard or mouse it would be the same? As Jan wrote, check if hal is running. And add Option "DontZap" "false" to Section "ServerFlags" in your xorg.conf, without that ctrl-alt-backspace won't work at all in xorg-server >= 1.6.0.
