On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:33:52AM -0600, John Larkin wrote: > > No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X > > server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X > > desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, > > it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text > > console. When I close my current (working) X session, I get static, my > > monitor displays a "NO SIGNAL OR RANGE OUT SIGNAL" message and goes > > into sleep mode. > > > [...] > > > > I did say that the console got FUBARd by killing the X server with -9, > > perhaps my assumption that people on this list had prior experience > > with this happening was unreasonable. Try it sometime, it's interesting. > > I don't think that's too unreasonable. A while ago, the X server for > my video card was quite unstable (ATI Mach64 w/chrontel ramdac), and I > ended up needing to kill the xserver remotely about once every 2 or 3 > days (the xserver would take over the console and refuse to operate > correctly).
interesting. I had a similar problem too...but..it happened only once so far. I upgraded to kernel 2.1.119 and a few days later it happend. It was BAD. I telnetted in from my girlfriends Mac. I killed X and suddenly the screen went weird...verticle stripes... AND the telnet connection DROPPED! Then I couldn't even ping hal...even Magic Alt-Sysreq didn't help had to hit the <shudder> reset button > After this happened, I got behavior slightly different > than yours: my text consoles would be, for lack of a better phrase, > fubar (so, does this deserve a "d" at the end, or perhaps a "-ed" to > make it clear? Who knows?). Anyway, it was still a valid video mode > -- but it was a graphics mode, and it looked like the kernel was > writing standard text into the video memory, yet the graphics card was > interpreting it as graphics. It looked bad, and nothing resembling > text. I tried all sorts of means of getting the text consoles back. > Running svga programs, running X again and shutting down nicely, and > using restoretextmode after I'd saved proper settings earlier. The X > server would work OK if I ran it again, but I was unable to get the > text modes back without rebooting linux. Did you try switching TTYs? alt-fn or cont-alt-fn ? -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
