couldn't you put something on the serial port, like one of your VFDs that you can kill -9 the server? if you had a small serial terminal, you should be able to kill X... well, one would think.. without bringing down the whole system... just a thought.. Bryan Hurely On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Doug Sutherland wrote: > The other problem, which really bothers me, is that x-windows > often fails to start properly, and freezes my machine. This one > is scary because it generally requires a panic response, unplug > power and reboot (since ctl-alt-del and ctl-alt-backspace do > not recover from the condition. In some cases the screen just > goes blank, other times I get a smattering of white dots on > black. In both cases the machine freezes. The graphic controller > is the MediaGX CS-5530 on PCM-5822. Is anyone else having this > problem? I am wondering if its my x-windows configuration or if > its a problem with CS-5530 working with the SVGA x-windows > server. Has anyone tried the National video drivers for linux? > > -- Doug > > -- > Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org > please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain > -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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