[olug] startx / init 5 hangs, ctrl-alt Fx doesn't work

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sat Feb 28 23:41:47 UTC 2009


Rob Townley wrote:
> On a Fedora 10 box in which i have Sugar, gnome, and KDE installed.
> And tried to change the gui keybindings to be more useful,
> startx and init5 hangs with the dots spinning around the mouse pointer.
> 
> Unfortunately, sshd must not be enabled and attempting to get to a
> ctrl-alt Fx virtual terminal fails.

Note, F-10 switched X from vt7 to vt1, so CNTL-ALT-F1 in particular 
functions differently.

Otherwise, what video hw/driver is in use here?  (I can note that recent 
nvidia drivers fail spectacularly, especially combined with kde).

-- Rex



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