Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!
> > I don't think that's too unreasonable. A while ago, the X server for
> > my video card was quite unstable (ATI Mach64 w/chrontel ramdac), and I
> > ended up needing to kill the xserver remotely about once every 2 or 3
> > days (the xserver would take over the console and refuse to operate
> > correctly).
>
> interesting. I had a similar problem too...but..it happened only once
> so far. I upgraded to kernel 2.1.119 and a few days later it happend.
> It was BAD. I telnetted in from my girlfriends Mac.
>
> I killed X and suddenly the screen went weird...verticle stripes...
> AND the telnet connection DROPPED!
Weird.
>
> Then I couldn't even ping hal...even Magic Alt-Sysreq didn't help
> had to hit the <shudder> reset button
>
I could always use X after the server crashed. Just kill it and start
it up again. Worked fine. But the text consoles were obliterated by
something very similar to your vertical stripes.
> Did you try switching TTYs? alt-fn or cont-alt-fn ?
Yes. This is how I noticed that all of the text consoles were
obliterated by vertical stripes.
After such an incident, I had 3 options:
1 - Use my computer remotely
2 - Use X locally
3 - Reboot
John
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