Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:25:32 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | From | (Kragen) |
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Kragen writes: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > >> Yes, it *is* very much a kernel issue. What happens if you > >> kill -9 the X server? The machine hangs because the kernel > > > > (It would be nice if someone had already written a small wrapper for X > > that would sanify the console when X crashes, as Linus suggested. Has > > someone? My X crashes every few months.) > > That was beat to death too: you can't do it. If you'd like to try, > I have a "nice" Cirrus Logic clgd5430 card you can try to restore. > . . . I can even > hit the reset button and boot into an OS with official drivers, > but it doesn't do any good. Only the big red switch works.
Does that mean X can't restore it either, if it exits properly? Does it mean that some information which would enable us to reset the card is lost when X dies? Or does it just mean that the card has crashed, and nothing short of cutting power to it will get it into a sensible state?
If the latter is the case, GGI/KGI won't help either!
Nevertheless, I would like to ask: does anyone have a program that does this, for, say, a CLGD5446? (It might have the same problem as the 5430.)
Kragen
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