My X session on my primary work box froze up this evening. System's still live, but I can't get a display off of it. sshing in from another system, 'chvt' had no effect, though I could (and can) start an X session.
Once running and closing X, I got my console back -- though it was
flashing wildly and eventually turned up an "out of range" dialog on the
monitor itself. Trying various SVGATextMode settings, including
SVGATextMode -x -o
...which looks like it ought to reset things from the man page, only
succeeded in flashing the display.
I'm planning on a reboot, but any tips on being able to recover from
something like this would be appreciated.
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