[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [patch] Re: Framebuffer...Why oh Why???

[Marius G. <mg...@ce...>]

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