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 wrote: > >> I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is > >> almost never n

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 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 "Sy

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

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland 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 corrupting the filesystem.

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 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: impossibilit

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 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 > switch between virtual con

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 wrote: >> and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. >> > Thank you, I completely forgot about this one. Two is

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 wrote: > and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. > Thank you, I completely forgot about this one. Two issues though: 1. In an older discus

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