On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Kledi Andoni wrote:
>
> I experienced exactly the same problem and yet don't know what is the
> solution... if you solve it, please let me know.
>
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> >
> > (1) X freeze
> > ============
> >
> > Is there an elegant way of regaining control of the keyboard when a X app
> > crashes (see below) and leaves the X console frozen and the keyboard in an
> > unusable state in raw mode?
> >
> > I have SAK (Secure Attention Key) mapped to Ctrl-Alt-PrintScreen, but even
> > this didn't work (when it usually does). I ended up remotely logging in,
> > but still couldn't bring sanity to the console. So I had little choice but
> > to uncerimoniously issue a reboot command :-(
> >
> > Surely there is a better way of doing this?
Dont know much, but try using loadkeys to get the keyboard and
SVGATextMode to reset the video mode.
Bye
Carlos Barros.
