Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Problem

Jim Cornette redhat-jc at insight.rr.com
Sun Oct 26 03:43:56 UTC 2003


Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 22:10, Steven Mackay wrote:
> 
>>OK I'm a relative newbie so excuse any stupidity on my part.
>>
>>I have an Athlon XP 2400+ and when I press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace instead of 
>>restarting X11 I get an immediate shutdown (instant power off)
> 
> 
> I have the same problem -- my machine goes into hibernation mode when I
> use Ctrl-Alt-Del.  I have all the power management features in my BIOS
> turned off, so I'm not sure what causes this behavior.  I'm using an ECS
> K7S5A motherboard and an Athlon 1800+.
> 
> It only started happening since I installed Fedora Core Test 2. 
> Previous to that I was using RH9 -- FCT2 was a clean install.
> 

What about making the start here (windoze key) log one out instead of 
killing X suddenly?

Jim





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