Emergency exit from X to tty1

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:52:27PM -0500, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> On a side note though:
> 
> Aren't most systems if you press the power button the unix system
> automatically goes into shutdown mode?
> 
> Doesn't that disable that portion?

That should be the default behaviour of an acpi enabled system.  acpi
doesn't work right on a lot of machines though due to bios bugs, so you
never know without testing it.

In this case, it certainly would disable that feature.

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