Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:05:13AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 68b1e2610908190512y3dc7d46eob79b6398686b7...@mail.gmail.com, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: I can't really help you with your problem, but a hard shutdown is

Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: I can't really help you with your problem, but a hard shutdown is almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your kernel using the SysRq Key [1], which will allow you to reboot a computer without

Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 68b1e2610908190512y3dc7d46eob79b6398686b7...@mail.gmail.com, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: I can't really help you with your problem, but a hard shutdown is almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your

restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

2009-08-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
(Sorry for the long re-naming, but I fell the thread should get its proper name as the issue evolves) On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. Thank you, I completely forgot about this one. Two issues

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

2009-08-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: (Sorry for the long re-naming, but I fell the thread should get its proper name as the issue evolves) On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. Thank you, I completely forgot

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

2009-08-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 8/18/09, thveillon.debian thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: I recently bought a HP 6730s with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 graphic chip. I run Squeeze/Sid AMD64 just like you, and with 2.6.26* kernel and the associated fglrx I ran into all kind of troubles: impossibility to

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

2009-08-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic a écrit : Hello, On 8/18/09, thveillon.debian thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: I recently bought a HP 6730s with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 graphic chip. I run Squeeze/Sid AMD64 just like you, and with 2.6.26* kernel and the associated fglrx I ran into all kind of

Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 14:41 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: [ ... ] meaning that I have to resort to using the hard-halt via the power button. Rebooting/Halting from Xfce works as expected (and it didn't I can't really help you with your problem, but a hard shutdown is almost never necessary.