From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always
while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless.
However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
