> > 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!
Weird. > > Then I couldn't even ping hal...even Magic Alt-Sysreq didn't help > had to hit the <shudder> reset button > I could always use X after the server crashed. Just kill it and start it up again. Worked fine. But the text consoles were obliterated by something very similar to your vertical stripes. > Did you try switching TTYs? alt-fn or cont-alt-fn ? Yes. This is how I noticed that all of the text consoles were obliterated by vertical stripes. After such an incident, I had 3 options: 1 - Use my computer remotely 2 - Use X locally 3 - Reboot John
