First all I can say is I hardly ever have it freeze on me unless I have
agp or my video drivers or something missing or configured incorrectly.
I'm not sure if I understand what your are saying here. Can you or cant
you change to a different console.
In theory if you log in and startx in your first console you can switch
back with ctrl-alt-f1 and do a ctrl + c which will basically kill the X
server. Personally I've seen X server freeze like that before, and
being unable to input from the keyboard, which i would guess somehow
caused the keyboard drivers used in X to fail.
But with the mouse still able to work and display the video still works
though X has definitely frozen. It's sounds like quite a complicated
freeze. If I was you I would try to figure out why it freezes fairly
often. when for me personally on a 2.6.10 kernel it never freezes when
properly set up. I can't really say whats wrong or not without some
more information or some basic troubleshooting on your end.
If I was you I wouldn't be worrying about how to kill it but rather what
is causing it to hang.
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 17:11 +0000, Peng wrote:
> Unfortunately, X or KDE (I don't know which one...) freezes fairly
> often... I can, of course, hit the reset button on the front of the
> computer, but that's not good a good thing to do. Is there anyything
> else I may be able to do? I don't want to lose data...
>
> Ctrl-Shift-Backspace or whatever it is does not work, nor does hitting
> Ctrl-Alt-F2 or something to switch to the command line. Seems like
> either keyboard input is ignored, or the stuff projected to the screen
> completely freezes. Probably the second, since I can still move the
> mouse around. Just can't click anything, and icons and all don't change
> when I mouse-over them.
>
> Hey... That gives me an idea. Think it could be that just video output
> is forzen, so I could hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root and reboot or
> something?
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
>
--
Douglas James Dunn
cell: (724) 316-8266
Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
() The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email,
/\ vCards, and proprietary formats.
.
.vir. d$b
.d$$$$$$b. .cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$$$$$$$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b.
$$$$( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$$$$$b Q$$$$$$$P$$$P.$$$$$$$b. .$$$$$$$b.
Q$$$$$$$$$$B$$$$$$$$P" d$$$PQ$$$$b. $$$$. .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$
"$$$$$$$P Q$$$$$$$b d$$$P Q$$$$b $$$$b $$$$b..d$$$ $$$$b..d$$$
d$$$$$$P" "$$$$$$$$ Q$$$ Q$$$$ $$$$$ `Q$$$$$$$P `Q$$$$$$$P
$$$$$$$P `""""" "" "" Q$$$P "Q$$$P" "Q$$$P"
`Q$$P" """
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
