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

[Daniel P. <phi...@bo...>]

On January 1, 2002 11:42 am, Alan Cox 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...)
> 
> Neomagic Magicgraph 128XD ? If so check man neomagic first 8)

Right, and check out the neo...@XF... mailing list archives.

I feel your pain ;)

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Daniel