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 1OWHfI-0000Xg-SA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:35:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 712D0E09CB; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618D3E09CB for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:34:55 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At4FAEdaM0xFpZtn/2dsb2JhbACTSow4csAvhSQEimeDTQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,549,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="69626045" Received: from 69-165-155-103.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.155.103]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 06 Jul 2010 19:34:53 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:34:44 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:34:44 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4 Message-ID: <20100706233444.GA27663@waltdnes.org> References: <201006302352.14268.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100701010550.GA10553@math.princeton.edu> <20100704125211.GA12340@ca.inter.net> <4C30B5D4.7060704@gmail.com> <20100704191005.GB23296@ca.inter.net> <4C30F2C8.6030800@gmail.com> <4C317611.8060209@gmail.com> <4C32F9F6.7000204@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C32F9F6.7000204@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 330afc6f-c58d-4e5e-94b5-1c1c69d64e78 X-Archives-Hash: f76046d600f8eb30b4ae916018af0749 On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 04:40:06AM -0500, Dale wrote > Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool. It hasn't happened to me > > for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken > > enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work. > > In that off chance, use the SysRq keys to get it back. If that doesn't > work, you got to reboot anyway. On a somewhat lower level than the keyboard, I enable the power button acpi event in my kernel (yes, it works for a desktop PC too). Then in /etc/acpi/events/default I have... action=chvt 1 Tapping the power button kicks me to tty1. You have to hold down the button for a few seconds to do a panic halt. Note; when testing this setup, it is strongly recommended to sync first before tapping the power button. -- Walter Dnes