On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 02:46, Kent West wrote: > Neo wrote: > >On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote: > >>Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for > >> any reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in > >> the command line. > > This is Debian's behaviour also. > > >>However, since I got more sophisticated hardware with an ATX power > >> supply, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace turns the machine off (or reboots it), with > >> consequent fscking of the drives, which is a pain. > > This is odd. I've never heard of such a thing. As someone else > mentioned, perhaps this is a key combination that your BIOS has reserved > for a reset, although I've never heard of such a BIOS.
After I posted my query, and before I read these, it did occur to me that it might be a BIOS setting (as you suggest), and it was. It's an Award BIOS, and I changed 'Hot Key Function' from 'Power Off' to 'Disable' (meaning, disable the hot key I presume). Nowhere in the BIOS setup does it say what the hot key combination is, but I guess Alt-Ctrl-Backspace is it. Anyway, *now*, Ctrl-Alt-BS does indeed just kill X and leave me in Linux as it should. However, whether it'll still work if X 'siezes' I'll only know if and when I have a sieze. Thanks Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
