Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 13:50:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Massive re-coding? Sounds like X just has to be protected from signal 9 > > just like init. That means you just need something to make X unique > > to the kernel's signal "generator". Remember, you did not kill X, you > > told the kernel to do it --- and it did. > > Or the kernel decided to blow it away, or I fed it stuff that crashed it > solidly. There are many ways to upset the Xserver. (Thats not entirely > an argument against any specific setup btw - no doubt kernel code would > have some upset potential too)
Yes, but the difference if the kernel video drivers crash, I know where to start looking. If X crashes and screws up the video card, the video drivers *could* be the problem. But a whole lot of other things in the X server could also be the problem. XFree86 4.0, which has separate video driver libraries, should help clear this problem up a lot though.
Jon
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