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<G>. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
