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Yesterday, I installed Awesome. Unfortunately, I forget to put hal in rc.conf. Even worse, the rc.lua I used didn't work and the runlevel already set to 5. No luck with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Practically, Arch didn't respond to mouse & keyboard.
Any idea how to fix this?
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Boot a liveCD and fix rc.conf etc.
In my .xinitrc I have 'setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' co I can C-A-B.
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or ssh into your machine if that's possible..
or boot in single user mode (in grub, type 'e' to edit the kernel line, append the word 'single' to it, enter, then type 'b' to boot).
Last edited by litemotiv (2010-05-02 17:12:24)
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In my .xinitrc I have 'setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' co I can C-A-B.
I don't think this works if the keyboard is not recognized by X, if hal is not running then it is the case.
If your boot loader is grub then you can add 'single' to the kernel line so it boots to single user mode,
then X won't start.
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> I don't think this works if the keyboard is not recognized by X, if hal is not running then it is the case.
:-) Of course th OP has to fix the hal issue first, but hal alone won't let him/her zap.
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karol wrote:In my .xinitrc I have 'setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' co I can C-A-B.
I don't think this works if the keyboard is not recognized by X, if hal is not running then it is the case.
If your boot loader is grub then you can add 'single' to the kernel line so it boots to single user mode,
then X won't start.
single or 3 works.
hal isn't necessary for X to work unless you autodetect or hotplug.
You can also put this in your keyboard section of your xorg.conf:
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
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