On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Ernie Cline wrote:
> Hello all, > > Firsly, is there a key-press combo that will exit X, like > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does on x86? I tried Ctrl+Cmd and Ctrl+Option with > backspace, but neither worked ... it could be X is hung, but i can't > tell, I just get a blank screen. I have an Nvidia GeForce2MX 400, which > was never offered on the mac, but works fine in OS9 and X ... I'm hoping > whatever nvidia driver works for the Apple GeForce 2 will work with my > card as well ... There is one, right? :) Ctl-Alt-Backspace - just like x86 Riva drivers are in kernel/X - that's the only nvidia at the moment. I have heard of some success with it, but I don't have any such machine here. > > Since I had to shut down the box with X hung, fsck wanted to run on my > only partition. It got halfway through, detected an error, and wanted > me to run it manually ... At this point I realized my keyboard didn't > work. This was interesting, it works at the yaboot prompt, it works > while the kernel is booting, but i think when it sets my keyboard to > mode us with loadkeys, this borks something. If the machine boots > normally, the keyboard works at the login prompt too ... should i remove > the first loadkeys call in the init scripts? Is this a known problem? > Its kind of annoying to boot off CD, fsck manually, reboot, test X, > machine hangs, lather, rinse, repeat ... > Keyboard should be functional in early boot. I had noticed this too some time back and made some changes to address it. If the partition needs fschk, you normally get prompted to press "Y" to fix early on, and I did verify this works. > Also xf86cfg hangs as well, and XConfigurator is a broken link to > ../sbin/XFDrake (spelling may be slightly off). This doesn't seem > right, but i only had the first CD, no CD2 yet, so XFDrake on the second > CD, or maybe not installed? I will investigate further ... XFDrake is the normal configuration tool in Mandrake. It should be able to be accessed from /usr/sbin/XFdrake, in console mode, as root. If you want to boot to console mode, until you get the X issues addressed, append "3" to your kernel arguments. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
