Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Problem

[Paul Morgan]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:49, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It never used to happen 'til I installed FCT2.  If it were hardwired
> > into the BIOS, wouldn't it have always occurred?  I have all the power
> > management options in my BIOS turned off.
> 
> In part it seems to depend if ACPI or APM are enabled. Some boxes do
> it always, some do it only if APM is not enabled and a few only do it
> if ACPI is loaded.

A few weeks ago I worked on a client's machine that exhibited this
behavior with both RH9 and Suse 8.2. It was not worth the time (money)
to troubleshoot it further, but it's interesting nonetheless.