On Monday 08 June 2015 10:02:47 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:54:09 +0800 > > Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen <pet...@synth.no> wrote: > > >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 > > >> > > >> Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> <snip> > > >>> > > >>> > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI > > >>> > stuff, and drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the > > >>> > nVidia driver, etc., just type startx. > > >>> > > > >>> > B > > >>> > > >>> I tried that,and got no response, so I assume that it is not > > >>> enabled. > > >>> > > >>> How do I enable it? > > >> > > >> setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > > >> > > >> Petter > > > > > > Thank you for that. > > > > > > However, whilt that apparently enabled the <CTRL><ALT><BACSPACE> > > > > Plurry keyboards! > > > > Whilst that combination was apparently enabled, the effect of that > > combination keypress was to take the computer to a different state of > > xwindows, and, not to disable xwindows, so the combination keypress > > did not have the desired effect. > > You need to be clearer. Did it drop you back to the display manager? > Stop that manually, like has been explained elsewhere in this thread. If > no display manager is running, and you had started X with startx or > xinit, X should be killed by that keyboard shortcut. > > > Maybe nVidia is simply designed to not work with Linux... > > They do have a reputation of not being very open-source friendly, but > other than that it works fine for a lot of people. I prefer AMD, > though.
I have a prorietary NVidia driver working in Wheezy. It wasn't too problematic. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506081700.10711.lisi.re...@gmail.com
