Fedora 12 installing

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Thu, 3/11/10, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.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.
> 
> To the OP:
> 
> If you are using a Live CD, you will not be able to try
> Suvayu Ali's
> kernel argument(s) and other suggestions, you will have to
> download a
> non-live CD/DVD.
> 
> 
> To all:
> 
> (With apologies, because the below is for the record as a
> response to
> the post quoted above because, looking at the thread
> history, my
> earlier response and the one below are somewhat OT)
> 
> You can enable ctrl+alt+backspace through the GUI:
> System - Preferences - Keyboard - Layout - Layout Options

That works only if the GUI is working.  What do you do when X is "hung" part way through start up, and you want to drop back to the terminal to see if you can fix it or scope the problem?  No Ctrl-Alt-Del enabled to do that.  Real smart.

For everyone's info:  Fedora 12 is the first of the Fedoras (been using it since 3 over 2 machines) that didn't screw up the X configuration during the install, causing the reboot to hang when the X-server started, forcing me to Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the terminal to manually configure it.  And I didn't have to use the nvidia graphics driver from Fusion either.  Nouveau worked out of the box. (I don't have a 3D card.  Don't do 3D eye candy, either.  A waste of CPU cycles.)

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