On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:32:13AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:01:53AM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > >>panic. I've had that happen when X crashed, too, and that wasn't really > >>even a driver bug (it was combination of wine and font servers). > > > > > >This one's resolvable if you have the Magic System Request key enabled > >(not sure if it is by default). It's sysrq-k to kill everything in > >your current console. If you use gdm or xdm on the console you're > >killing, then it should restart automatically and give you a new > >login. If you use kdm and you have "Automatically log in after X > >server crash" enabled, then it will automagically restart your session > >where it was last saved; otherwise it'll behave the same as gdm or xdm. > > > > Maybe it is just me[I use the nvidia driver], but this has never worked > for me. sysrq-k will successfully kill everything in the current > console after an X hang, but then the screen just turns to gibberish and > I still can't get control of it. Killing something that harshly would leave the hardware in an undefined state, I would imagine, particularly with the deep voodoo that the nvidia drivers use. -rob
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