On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
>
> > 1. XFree86 - Nothing kills a machine faster than buggy video drivers.
> > Sometimes only the display gets wacked and one can telnet in and reboot
> > the machine, sometimes not.
>
> There's no needs to reboot in this case. You can just kill the X server
> and everything will be back to normal.
> X can't mess up kernel space, so once you killed the process it's gone.
>
I can see you haven't had this happen to you. The keyboard is gone, the
mouse is gone, the display is toast. Trust me, I fiddled with this for
quite a while, upgrading to a new release of XFree86 made the problem go
away. You can kill the X server all you want, the trick is to get
something to tell the card to do back to text mode! I never had any luck
doing that, better to clean shutdown/boot.
I've also had X completely kill a machine, no network no nothing.
C'est la kernel software.
Bill Carlson
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