problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

TNWestTex mcforum at bellsouth.net
Mon Dec 28 17:38:26 UTC 2009




Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> 
> François Patte wrote:
>> Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> a écrit :
>>
>>> To all:
>>>
>>> Installed f12 without any problems.
>>>
>>> Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I 
>>> could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature.
>>>
>>> Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install 
>>> system-config-display to create an xorg.conf that matched the default 
>>> that the opSys was using. Worked great and, to use the cliché, "groovy"
>>>
>>> Reboot system and it immediately hangs after that cute little Fedora 
>>> icon finishes to say that it booted. Just hangs and hangs. To use the 
>>> cliché again, "not groovy".
>>>
>>> I figure I have no choice but to reinstall
>>
>> Why don't edit grub "boot line" to switch to level 3 and see what 
>> happens using startx? Then examine the log files Xorg.0.log*
>>
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> François:
> 
> Thanks for the reply. Given the "here it is" replies from Eric and 
> Kevin, I'm going to take the easy route and use that rather than get 
> myself into more trouble with Xorg.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
If you use the advice from François you can make the other changes by using
su - to get to root without having to reinstall.  In textmode you have
control over your system that the graphical boot takes away from you. 
Besides on all the systems I've tried so far it is much faster to login and
type startx than is tis to wait for all the graphics.

Robert McBroom

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