Emergency exit from X to tty1

[Dave Germiquet]

Hey,

I'll try that out sometime. I've had numerous times where I've had to
reboot because my X hung :(


On Dec 19, 2007 6:14 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   Here's a useful hint I picked up on the Gentoo mailing list.  This is
> for those occasions when you get stuck in X, with X hogging the
> keyboard, and refusing to let you exit to textmode.  With a bit of
> setup, you can use the big "Power" button (YES!!! the "ON/OFF" button)
> to force a jump to textmode tty1.  Here are the steps...
>
> as root
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig
>   Power management options (ACPI, APM)  --->
>     [*] Power Management support
>         ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
>           [*] ACPI Support
>           <*>   Button
>
> Compile and re-boot into new kernel
>
> emerge acpi
> (That's for Gentoo; other distros use apt-get/yum/rpm/whatever)
>
> change the uncommented lines in /etc/acpi/events/default to read
> event=.*
> action=chvt 1
>
> execute the two commands...
> /etc/init.d/acpid start     (to start acpid now)
> rc-update add acpid default (to automatically start acpid at future bootups)
>
>   Notes:
>   - When testing, I suggest executing "sync" as a precaution, just
>     before pressing the "big" power button.
>
>   - PCs also have a smaller power button which is hard-wired to shutdown
>     or re-boot.  Do *NOT* press that button.
>
>   - After editing /etc/acpi/events/default run the command
> /etc/init.d/acpid restart
>     to force acpid to read in the new config
>
>   It was scarey at first, pressing the power button.  Just like the
> feeling I had a dozen years ago when I first pressed {CTL-ALT-DEL} in
> Windows95, not to reboot but to bring up the task manager.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
> I'm not repeating myself
> I'm an X Window user...  I'm an ex-Windows-user
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