Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:50:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I started X. As root I killed X. Keyboard, etc., all locked. > > I logged in over the network and restarted X. Everything worked, > > including ctl-alt-backspace which got me out of X with a usable > > keyboard. `stty sane` and `stty rows 24` fixed up about averything. > > For a tiny fraction of cards. On a cirrus you can get into a state where > even the engineers who designed it couldnt get it back without a power > down. > > Alan > Yes. On one of my S3_VERGE machines, I could get X back up and it worked fine. However, once I normally exited X, I was stuck with a "strange" screen and no keyboard control.
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.115 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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