--- On Thu, 3/11/10, Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> What genius decided that? > Stupid. Are you sure? > >> That little three-key combo has gotten me out of > more than a few > >> X-server lockups with Fedora due to > misconfiguration by the installer. > > > Upstream X.Org. I'm sure if you search it, you will > find lots of > > discusions about it. You can always switch to a > terminal and kill X > > manually (or just the process hanging), or you can > re-enable it in an > > xorg.conf if you really want to. > > To the OP: > > If you are using a Live CD, you will not be able to try > Suvayu Ali's > kernel argument(s) and other suggestions, you will have to > download a > non-live CD/DVD. > > > To all: > > (With apologies, because the below is for the record as a > response to > the post quoted above because, looking at the thread > history, my > earlier response and the one below are somewhat OT) > > You can enable ctrl+alt+backspace through the GUI: > System - Preferences - Keyboard - Layout - Layout Options That works only if the GUI is working. What do you do when X is "hung" part way through start up, and you want to drop back to the terminal to see if you can fix it or scope the problem? No Ctrl-Alt-Del enabled to do that. Real smart. For everyone's info: Fedora 12 is the first of the Fedoras (been using it since 3 over 2 machines) that didn't screw up the X configuration during the install, causing the reboot to hang when the X-server started, forcing me to Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the terminal to manually configure it. And I didn't have to use the nvidia graphics driver from Fusion either. Nouveau worked out of the box. (I don't have a 3D card. Don't do 3D eye candy, either. A waste of CPU cycles.) B -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
