Re: How to kill X?
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:58, Mike Mueller wrote:
> On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:02, Neo wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect,
> > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was the only key combination that worked. Is
> > > there any setting that will restore its function of 'kill X but don't
> > > reboot the machine' or any other key combination that achieves that?
>
> <snip>
>
> > try loging in remotely and run '/etc/init.d/<gkx>dm stop'.
> > (Fill in your running favorite display manager)
>
> I had a long run of X siezures where I could remote in sometimes and
> sometimes not. Sometimes I had to reset and fsck. No key sequences on the
> siezed machine had any effect other than expressing my frustration.
>
> FWIW, I changed my workstation from a machine with a crappy bare-bones
> video card (Trident) to a machine with a less crappy bare bones video card
> (ATI Rage something or another). That put a stop to the X siezures. Not
> an elegant solution admittedly but I was able to run two desktops side by
> side and compare stability. I was not able to find any direct evidence
> that positively suggested that I should change video cards.
>
> Good luck.
Thanks. I might end up trying that video card solution because currently I
do have some suspicions of the on-board video chip (or whatever it is) on my
motherboard.
cr
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