From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZnsw-0004kH-9m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:03:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2655E09F8 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net (vms173013pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.13]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3900FE08AD for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([unknown] [96.245.54.140]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0KWV00EOG1892045@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:19:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (rich.homedns.org [192.168.0.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B4C21759FCA for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:19:21 -0500 (EST) Message-id: <4B5F07F9.6020803@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:19:21 -0500 From: Richard Freeman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091229 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question References: <5bdc1c8b1001251520x3aae67b6ld7ba028d365eb757@mail.gmail.com> <20100126000912.GA806500@sgi.com> <1264465434.14075.3.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> <5bdc1c8b1001251909v389e94a5l13100f89a7130afb@mail.gmail.com> <1264482353.6175.5.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> In-reply-to: <1264482353.6175.5.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 24411214-d706-4caf-942a-bb9339ef4ee6 X-Archives-Hash: 8512f25d3aaedaad1aa62c13df9188e3 On 01/26/2010 12:05 AM, Drake Donahue wrote: > Alternate run: > X -retro to start xserver that will show the old black/white stipple and > a mouse cursor. > Note: you will have to do a power off to get out of X. > If this actually works, you should be able to use ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever to get back to your virtual console and kill your server. Or, if you configure your xorg.conf appropriately you can do a ctrl-alt-backspace. (For some reason that I can't fathom they decided to disable this by default.)