ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

Gary Aitken freebsd at dreamchaser.org
Tue May 22 17:06:05 UTC 2012


Thanks for the pointers and hints, I'm over that hurdle.

On 5/19/2012 5:28 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote:
>
>>> 3. The Xorg man page notes that <ctrl><alt><bksp> should cause it to
>>> exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on
>>> why <ctrl><alt><bksp> doesn't cause it to exit?
>>
>> This is also a new default to _not_ work anymore. You have more
>> than two (if I remember correctly) options in making it work.
>> You'll find them in the Handbook:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
>>
>> One possibility when X has been compiled _without_ HAL support
>> (and no hald running), placing
>>
>> Option "DontZap" "false"
>>
>> into the "ServerLayout" section should work. Additionally, I see
>> that I have
>>
>> Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>>
>> in the "InputDevice" section of "Keyboard0". It "just" works. :-)
>
> This should work whether or not HAL is installed or running.
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