Fedora 12 installing

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:07 +0000, psmith wrote:
> On 11/03/10 16:01, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, David Bartmess wrote:
> >    
> >> On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
> >>      
> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek<bartek047 at yahoo.com>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        
> >>>> What genius decided that?  Stupid.  Are you sure?  That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-server lockups with Fedora due to misconfiguration by the installer.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> Upstream X.Org. I'm sure if you search it, you will find lots of
> >>> discusions about it. You can always switch to a terminal and kill X
> >>> manually (or just the process hanging), or you can re-enable it in an
> >>> xorg.conf if you really want to.
> >>>
> >>> -c
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> Where can I find this to turn it back on? And what is the setting? I
> >> can't find an xorg.conf file anywhere on my system.
> >>      
> > ----
> > well the intent is not to run with any xorg.conf at all because that
> > allows you to switch components (keyboards, mouse, monitor, videocard)
> > without any need to reconfigure.
> >
> > but if you want one, it should go where it always has gone... /etc/X11
> >
> > The argument is 'DontZap "false"'
> >
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >          Option          "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> >          Option          "AutoAddDevices" "true"
> >          Option          "DontZap" "false"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> >    
> try looking in
> 
> System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Layout Options > Key 
> Sequence To Kill The X Server
> 
> and ticking the little box :)
----
I don't use Gnome

Craig


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