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Re: strange X11 problem



Hello,

Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net> wrote:
>   I have a very strange problem with X11. I'm running sarge with Nvidia
> 2 MX400. nvidia-glx is 1.0.7174-4. The problem is that my desktop
> freezes, so that mouse pointer still can be mooved (like old days of
> win3.11 :) but nothing is updated on the screen. If I ssh to this
> machine, than i see XFree eating all cpu, and it's state, acording to
> "ps -aux" is RL. What does L mean? And I cannot kill X with SaK --
> system attention Key.

I do not know what SaK is, but can't you kill X with something like

# /etc/init.d/{xdm|kdm|gdm|??} stop

Or you may just try to do something like

# init {3|1}

One of these things should work to kill X without solving the problem.

bis dahin/kind regards

Martin Mewes

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