Well, with PCLinuxOs, I believe that x had the video drivers packaged differently between versions, so it might not be so simple.

Anyone competent with PCLinuxOs might want to contact him off list and offer a phone session assist?

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> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:41:11 -0700
> From: danceswithcrows@usa.net
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: How to recover X display? v.1.1
>
> From: Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com>
> > On 3/24/09, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> >> Are you on dialup? If you've got proper bandwidth,
> >> "dhclient eth0" or "dhcpcd eth0" should get a dynamic IP
> >> address provided eth0 is plugged in to something.
> > I have DSL wireless and it was working fine before the crash.
> > Even now, when I boot up, I see lights blinking on the 3-COM
> > pci card, but since I can't see anything on F7 I can't use the
> > wireless connection that I think I have.
>
> > And I don't know how to establish that connection on one of the
> > other F1-F6 command-line only terminals.
>
> First find out what your NIC is called. "iwconfig" should list
> all NICs, and the wired ones will say "no wireless extensions".
> So you might see:
>
> eth0: no wireless extensions
> eth1: 802.11b/g ESSID "blah" Mode managed TxPower 89 FooBar 23
> [more settings like that]
> lo: no wireless extensions
>
> Then, you do "dhcpcd eth1" if you have no encryption on and
> don't care which AP you connect to. Things get more complex
> when you use WEP/WPA, but say which one you're using, and I or
> someone else will be able to tell you what's up. Really, I'd
> take a length of Cat5 and plug the thing in, rather than deal
> with the hassle of wireless for this reasonably short experiment.
>
> >> Fix the Net access and apt-get upgrade, and
> >> you should be good. (I Could Be Wrong.)
> > Wish I could.
>
> The stuff above may help.
>
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