* Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question
@ 2010-01-26 15:19 99% ` Richard Freeman
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From: Richard Freeman @ 2010-01-26 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-amd64
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.)
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