-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:13:21PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the > Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics > interface?
Take a floppy disk, and walk six blocks to the library. Download putty[1] to the floppy disk. Run putty from the disk and SSH to your computer[2], and then /etc/init.d/kdm restart [3], pop the disk and head out. References: [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ [2] You need to know what your computer's IP is. The easiest way is to go to http://www.dyndns.org/ and sign up for one of the freebie yourname.dydndns.org accounts. Some of the long time readers may remember when ursine.ca was ursine.dyndns.org. [3] Or whatever your display manager is... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5fkeUzgNqloQMwcRAmNRAKDRLIhTbBq4if8uKyQYzWfA7vkM5gCdGwcg +DSpqesU0SbvL+R1NYqVq+8= =waj2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
