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From: Marius G. <mg...@ce...> - 2002-01-01 14:31:44
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:41:19PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > X11 isn't always an improvement. I've got an X hang on my laptop (about once > a week) that freezes the keyboard and ignores mouse clicks. Numlock doesn't > change the keyboard LEDs, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE won't do a thing, and although I > can ssh in and run top (and see the CPU-eating loop), kill won't take X down > and kill-9 leaves the video display up so the console that thinks it's in > text mode, but isn't, is still useless. (And that's assuming I'm plugged > into the network and have another box around to ssh in from...) I sometimes get a similar problem on my desktop when switching between text and X11 virtual consoles. Keyboard + mouse die (PS/2 counter becomes stuck according to /proc/interrupts). ssh followed by chvt helps. Marius Gedminas -- Of course I use Microsoft. Setting up a stable unix network is no challenge ;p |