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* 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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2010-01-26  0:09     ` Bob Sanders
2010-01-26  0:23       ` Drake Donahue
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