On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. > > The whole display was very flickery and no > > application responded any more, though I saw, that > > gkrellm was still working. Even switching to a console (ALT-F1) > > did not succeed. I had the the X-screen still visible, jumping > > half a page to the left each time I hit a key. > > Had no luck in rebooting blindly. > > I've had that happen with X on my laptop. My standard method to attempt > to get out of that state is to return to X (I tend to have num lock on > in X, a useful indicator to show that I am at the right screen), wait > until the load on the system is lower, change to console. If the screen > looks either grey or normal, it worked (although grey needs the "reset" > command)
I've had this happen a few times too. Once you get to the 'screen-out-of-phase-by-half' stage, even the kernel is b0rked. Magic sysrq doesn't work, so you're left with a hardware reset. -rob
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