On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, tom carlile wrote:
>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.
Otherwise you can do what I do: Use the Magic SysRq key hack in the 2.2.x
kernel. (SysRq = Alt PrintScreen). Info is in kernel/Documentation/...
Taral
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