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Okay! I'll remember that. Thanks again.

I am awed by your Kung Fu. Changing the nvidia kernel to persistent mode did the trick. I can now shutdown, logoff, and kill the x server any way I please, and it doesn't go into a hard freeze. Since the source of this problem was a Nvidia Kernel bug, And you've presented the work around, I'm going ...

Update: Back in Cinnamon, which is awesome. Adding my username to the video group did the trick. This has been wonderful, learning how to install liquorix and the newest drivers, instead of wait for the repositories. The original problem persists unfortunately. I can't exit the x server without a ha...

Update: I've installed the liquorix, uninstalled the nvidia drivers and manually re-installed the 302.17 nvidia drivers per the instructions. The good news: Liquorix runs just fine. The bad: Cinnamon now fails to start, leaving me at the same black screen with a few squiggly characters as before. So...

Wow! Thanks!

I've never used Liquorix before. I'll be interested to see how this works. I'll try this and post the results.

Hello, I love my LMDE 64 installation, but I have a small problem: I'm currently unable to use the menu buttons for "shutdown", "logout", and "switch users". Any time I do, the computer freezes hard, forcing a manual restart or power off. This also happens for Control + Alt + Backspace, and Control ...