Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Richard Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:01:50
Message-Id: 4B5F0737.4080109@thefreemanclan.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question by Drake Donahue
1 On 01/26/2010 12:05 AM, Drake Donahue wrote:
2 > Alternate run:
3 > X -retro to start xserver that will show the old black/white stipple and
4 > a mouse cursor.
5 > Note: you will have to do a power off to get out of X.
6 >
7
8 If this actually works, you should be able to use ctrl-alt-F1 or
9 whatever to get back to your virtual console and kill your server. Or,
10 if you configure your xorg.conf appropriately you can do a
11 ctrl-alt-backspace. (For some reason that I can't fathom they decided
12 to disable this by default.)

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