Emergency exit from X to tty1

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 20 16:24:21 UTC 2007


On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I believe that many current systems still have a "hardware" on/off
> switch, but it's on the power supply at the back of the PC.

Many power supplies don't have that.  That does have the advantage of
shutting down standby power as well, so that it is safe to change
hardware in the computer.  Unplugging works too of course.

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