Emergency exit from X to tty1

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:38:44PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   The smaller "reset" button seems to be straight hardware, i.e. push it
> and your PC does a hard reboot, without rsync.  If you don't "sync" just
> before hitting it, it's fsck time on the reboot.

Of course, it's a reset button.  The power button is ACPI enabled, the
reset is just reset.  It is not a button to request a reboot.  You could
make the acpi power button do that if you want instead of power off
though.

The only real power switch on a modern PC is the switch on the back of
the power supply (if your power supply even has one), and holding the
power button for over 4 seconds on most machines (although that still
only powers the system off most of the way.  Standby power is still
present since that is what is used to control the power switch and
such).

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