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On 23/03/2016 12:53, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:46:09AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote |
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>> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>> You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates |
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>>> the need to boot to console to protect against buggy X11 servers. But, |
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>>> it's fairly recent and Linux-specific. So, the boot-to-console trait |
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>>> (which evolved pre-sysrq -- and even pre-Linux, and has very little |
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>>> "cost") hasn't died out yet... |
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>> Yes, but it Xorg isn't that buggy to warrant the inconvience of |
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>> a console boot on a desktop/laptop. Even with proprietary nvidia |
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>> drivers. |
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> How much inconvenience is it, really? I have a short script ~/bin/x |
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> #! /bin/bash |
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> startx -- -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf & |
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> At the commandline I simply type "x" and hit the {ENTER} key. Note |
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> the "-config ${1}xorg.conf". The default (i.e. no parameters passed to |
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> script) is to go with the regular xorg.conf. But if I want to go with a |
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> lower resolution (e.g. 640x480) from "640xorg.conf", I would start with |
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> x 640 |
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> This allows me to easily start up not only with different resolutions, |
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> but different colour depths, etc. |
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Most users in this day and age would probably reply "why do I need to |
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start with different resolutions and colour depth?" |
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It's been many years since I myself fiddled with any of that, all my |
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displays are now LCD where only one resolution makes any sense - native |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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