On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:47, Mike wrote: > A similar thing happens to me with my VooDoo3 when it freezes during > fullscreen 3D and one thing you can do to avoid rebooting is to run > xinit or whatever in the remote session that you used to kill X and > you should find that the X server starts up again on the main machine > and you can use it as normal without rebooting. The only problem with > this is that if you kill the remote sesson Xgoes down with it.
man nohup (or zsh has disown, ...) > You'll also find that if you exit the X session normally the frozen > screen that you had before will miraculously(?) return. The server restores the VT to whatever it was when it started. With a real framebuffer device, you should be able to get the console back using fbset. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
