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membrax:

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
Teehee...

In pico: pico -w <file>
In Vim, when you are done: :wq! (yes, include the "!").
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Hummm hummmm ... nearly right buddy.
But whith a black screen, pico is quite difficult to use you know.
And, on top of that, when the concerned file is -rw-r--r-- attributed you can put as many "!" as you want, without being root you won't have the write access to it !


By the way, coz I'm the victim Ice9 is speaking over, as I recompiled the latest nVidia drivers 4.1.9.1 I just got the same trouble one hour ago.
Screen totally black.

... and then ?

Worked as a blind :
- many <esc> keys, followed by some <Enter>
- then "login" <Enter>
- then "root"
- then "**********" nah you won't know my password  
--->> I became root
- then the famous cmd line blindly :
"cp etc/X11/XF86Config-original etc/X11/XF86Config" yeah, I had a clean copy ... just in case.
- "y" (still blindly, remember ?)
- "halt"
- System shutdown & reboot.

Let there be light !


By the way Ice9, thx again for getting support for me, as you surely recall I really needed that !!!

;o)

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