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]

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <
jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr> wrote:

> On 04.10.2014 17:31, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> > Could you please connect from a remote computer to your Power Mac G5 and
> > 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-Sébastien Pédron
>
> If you set DontZap to "false" in xorg.conf, <CTRL-ALT-BS> should kill X.
In R6 days, it was the default.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com