Timothy Normand Miller <theo...@...> writes: > What do you do if something's gone wrong with the virtual terminals? > I've had this happen plenty of times in the past. Broken driver (in X > or kernel) doesn't restore VGA or the graphical console, so you get a > blank screen. Despite that, exiting X will somehow cause the console > to get restored. Although X is far better than it was in the past, I > can't accept that it now never has this problem. [...]
If there is a broken driver, you should file a bug report. Now that Ctrl+Alt+Bksp is disabled by default, such bug reports will probably be treated as higher-priority than they used to be. > [...] > None of this, of course, is necessarily an argument in favor of > ctrl-alt-backspace. It's a convenient way to kill X, but that too is > not any kind of universal solution. What about those cases when the > text console is not restored on exit? And if you had a problem with > "X -configure", and ctrl-alt-backspace does work and exit you back to > the console, that doesn't solve the problem of being unable to > configure X, which is unrelated to the key combination. > > Maybe X needs a watchdog timer for hangs and more robustness in > dealing with crashes, drivers that don't work, and other config > issues. [...] Good points. > [...] > Also, ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't do you any good when your problem is > your keyboard input driver. I use Gentoo, and sometimes when the core > is updated, the evdev driver doesn't work without a recompile. > [...] So Gentoo doesn't automatically recompile evdev when it recompiles the core? If not, why not? _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
