Re: no X after installing xorg + xfce

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Michal Varga <varga.michal_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 12:02 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
>> >    Newb hacker tip number one: try CTRL-ALT-F1 when you get the
>> > technicolor screen. If your system isn't hosed then you'll get the
>> > first tty.
>>
>> I do know this, before it was CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE and now it is
>> CTRL + ALT + F1 :)  I am not exactly a ``newbie'' but I am not an
>> ``expert'' as I am still learning :)
>>
>
> Those two are very different kinds of beasts. CTRL+ALT+Fx is an
> xf86/xorg substitute for the regular ALT+Fx (console switching), so that
> ALT+Fx can be still used within X applications.
>
Yes :)  I meant to kill X server, but it was depracated and now
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE needs to be in xorg.conf with the Zap as you
mention it.

The CTRL + ALT + FX FX = f1, ... f12 to change virtual terminals :)
But in this case did the same thing, killed X and then CTRL+C to try
from stopping loading automatically.

> On the other hand, CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is a "zap" command, that will let
> you instantly kill a currently running X server. Note that in more
> recent versions of xorg (incl. 7.5), CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is disabled by
> default. To get it working again, you will need to setup xorg.conf with
> at least:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>  Identifier    "Main Layout"
> [...]
>  InputDevice   "Main Keyboard"         "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> [...]
>  Option        "DontZap"               "False"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>  Identifier    "Main Keyboard"
>  Driver        "kbd"
>  Option        "XkbOptions"            "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> EndSection
>
>
>
>> Garrett & all,
>>
>> I have X working :)  Used nvidia-driver, as specified in FreeBSD howto
>> (handbook page).  changed 'nv' to 'nvidia', added nvidia_enable="YES"
>> to /etc/rc.conf and now X works.  I am loading more software that is
>
> That's good to hear. Congratulations.
>
> m.
>
$ uname -a
FreeBSD e213-amd64-1.grullahighschool.org 9.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2
#0: Tue Sep 20 10:02:05 CDT 2011
root_at_e213-amd64-1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
$


>
> --
> Michal Varga,
> Stonehenge (Gmail account)
>
>
>

Regards,

Antonio