On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: > > > > Thanks for this! > > Regards, > > Colleen > > > > This may help too. This is from a post Neil made a long time ago: > > [QUOTE] > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual > full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B > > Reboot > Even > If > System > Utterly > Broken > > [END QUOTE] > > Don't forget to build support in the kernel too. I think this is the only > one needed: > > root@fireball / # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i sysrq > CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y > root@fireball / # > > Usually I only get to about the E or I then I get a console. Getting the > processes sorted out is the hard part tho. At least you can do a clean > shutdown and reboot tho. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how > you interpreted my words! > > Miss the compile output? Hint: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
Being that this is the third time the xorg drivers issue has cropped up in the last week, I put together another blog post for it. http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/xorg-updating-from-1-10-to-1-11-and-fixing-your-system/ -- :wq
