there is one more thing you can try before you go for the reset switch.
try Ctrl-Alt-F1, which should drop you to the background terminal that
X is running in. you can see the errors X dumps there as well as try
Ctrl-C type sequences to try to kill it.
if that fails, try Ctrl-Alt-F2, which takes you to another initial virtual
terminal that you can login to and use normal methods to try to kill the
runaway X.
one you do a Ctrl-Alt-F1, if you want to jump back into X do a
Alt-F7; this would not be a good idea if you successfully kill X though.
have a nice day.
Simon Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Justin Georgeson wrote:
>
> >I recently upgraded to a dual PII motherboard (Tyan S1696DLUA Thnder 2)
> >with a single PII 333 and 64 MB of RAM. I have an A-Trend 4MB AGP S3-ViRGE
> >GX/2 video card in it. Either the card, or the S3V server....sux. I think
> >that when it started crashing frequently, was due to different versions of
> >software (didn't notice the .1 on the rpm's). So I upgrade that, so now
> >all my XFree86 rpm's are 3.3.3.1. Noticeable improvement. But I'm still
> >seeing the server crash for no good reason (changed the font size in an
> >xterm, ran top). After I upgraded all the X rpms I ran XF86Setup and said
> >to start from scratch to configure everything over again, and this has,
> >for the most part, fixed the problems. But until I did this, I was only
> >able to run X in 8bpp and almost anything (save moving the mouse, most of
> >the time) would make it crash. I guess to get to the point, does anyone
> >know is the S3V server is worth anything. I seem to see better
> >performance, faster and nicer looking, using the SVGA server.
>
> I run the S3V server at home with my DX/2 card with no problem (but you have to
> add a line to xf86config to overclock it). However, I'm told that it's better
> to use the SVGA server. I've run into a problem on a friend's system which has
> a GX/2. We can't get either server to work. It'll run fine for a while, then
> it will just completely freeze up. Can't Ctrl-B/S, can't switch to another
> virtual screen, can't ctrl-alt-del, sometimes the reset button won't even work,
> we have to power cycle it at the surge protector! It seems to have something to
> do with the mouse (just my intuition) which in this case is PS/2. What type of
> mouse are you using? On the other hand, our problem could be that the machine
> is question is a Slackard/Bell.
>
> Simon Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Operating Systems Specialist
> Department of Utilities
> University of Texas
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