On July 14, 2003 05:59 am, Andy Goth wrote: > On Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:48 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: > > > On Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:06 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: > > > > I crashed X again but fail to see how i can ping my computer from a > > > > different host if my comuter is frozen... > > > > > > It's just a test to see if your computer really is frozen or if you > > > only lost keyboard/monitor I/O. You might be surprised. Every time I > > > try to get DRI working I wind up with what appears to be a frozen > > > machine, but I can still log in via telnet. > > > > Yes, I understand the theory behind doing this, but... i only have one > > computer... how do I do this with one computer? Do I not need a second > > one to be able to ping the one im having problems with?? > > One of us could try ping, if we knew your IP address... > > Try this. Hit http://ioioio.net/geoff and I'll see you in the log. Then > I'll start pinging you. I'll record the time when the pings fail and send > it to you in email. You record the time when your computer appears to lock > up and when you reboot. Be sure to sync with ntp first or we won't get > anywhere.
excuse my "newbieness" but... sync with ntp?? What is that? Thanks -- Geoff Petzold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
