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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:05:18 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Removal of legacy X.Org (aka non-WITH_NEW_XORG) [NVIDIA vs. powerpc64 for vt console switching; Radeon X1950 not working for powerpc64 Xorg generally]
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In-Reply-To: <54301651.2020901@dumbbell.fr>
References:  <2C74DFEC-D943-4237-8988-B9657240EC21@dsl-only.net> <543012DB.2040208@FreeBSD.org> <54301651.2020901@dumbbell.fr>

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On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron <
jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> wrote:

> On 04.10.2014 17:31, Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron wrote:
> > Could you please connect from a remote computer to your Power Mac G5 an=
d
> > run the following command as root?
> >     truss -fd -o truss-$(sysctl -n kern.vty).txt /usr/local/bin/Xorg
> >
> > Wait a couple seconds and hit Control-C to stop the X server.
>
> Maybe wait around 10" to be sure X is fully started (you won't see
> anything on the screen though, that's expected).
>
> And in my test, Control-C doesn't stop X. You'll have to kill it from a
> separate shell (pkill Xorg).
>
> --
> Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron
>
> If you set DontZap to "false" in xorg.conf, <CTRL-ALT-BS> should kill X.
In R6 days, it was the default.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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