[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 06/22/11 12:37 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 3:35 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Brian Hechinger<wonko at 4amlunch.net>  wrote:
>>> On 6/22/2011 3:30 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to literally kill the GUI? I run into this accidentally
>>>> today:
>>>>
>>>> # svcadm disable gdm
>>>>
>>>> Which throws me out into the console. The only down-side being that if
>>>> the desktop freezes, I don't think I get this line typed out, let
>>>> alone executing it...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the information.
>>> Does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kill the X server when it's hung?  It should.
>> I actually tried that as it was the first suggestion coming back from
>> Google - didn't seem to do anything. Not even switching to a blank
>> screen like Ctrl+Alt+F1 does.
> 
> That's very odd.  Has the defaults for the X server on OI been changed to ignore
> that I wonder?

More likely that OI is shipping a version of the xkeyboard-configuration
keytables after that keymapping was removed from the default set and made
optional:
	http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/zapping-server.html

Unfortunately, the GNOME GUI for enabling XKB options didn't integrate to
the JDS/spec-files gate until after snv_151, so OI probably doesn't have it
yet.  Similarly the upgrade from Xorg 1.7.x to Xorg 1.9.x that enables
xorg.conf.d files didn't integrate until after that as well, or you'd be
able to just do
	ln -s ../xorg.conf.avail/90-zap.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

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