On 11/17/19 10:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:27:48 +0100, n952162 wrote:There's a million ways a system can hang. Acpi is a mechanism for shipping kernel events to user space. If user space isn't working, acpi won't work. I think.But if it's just X that is locked, then ACPI could be used to rescue the system in a less aggressive way than Magic SysReq.
Right. That's the point. X runs in user-space.