To add some perspective to this bug report. I had the same
thing happen 3 times. Today I figured out how bad it really was.
The other times I was testing some really alpha code and
didn't care. RiserFS encourages you to reboot casually ( Memo to
staff. Include ugly warning message when Riser remounts after
dirty shutdown just to scare people into investigating )
1. The site was not real.com for me. 3 separate sites.
2. I was not using X-4.0 on 2 of the occasions. I was using the
old one ( 3.3.6 )
3. I could telnet in and kill every single application, including
the X server but the display would still be up and frozen.
4. Running "startx -- :0" from the telnet window reloads X and
KDE to working form but ...
5. In this working form ctrl+alt+backspace / F1 both lock the
screen and keyboard.
6. I am running BETA1. It took 3 days to download that on
campus and the space has been reclaimed for other downloads.
( memo to self. add more drives to Linux "download server" )
7. I have never been led to trust the SVGA server's driver for
my S3-Virge card and the actual S3V server is seriously broken.
Did you have an S3 card too ?
Randy Welch wrote:
>
> Not sure if this applies, but I'd be interested in seeing if anyone else
> has run into this.
>
> With the latest cooker/XFree86 4.0/netscape, try going to the download
> section of real.com. The page just begins to load and then the mouse
> disappears then X locks up tight as a drum. Takes the keyboard with
> it. Machine is still functional (ie. network works and you can telnet
> into it, it helps to have more than 1 machine in the house.) Killing X
> seems to get the keyboard back, but can't switch to virtual terminals.
> Takes a reboot to get the console back. (Machine config: Dual
> PIII/550, 256M, Matrox G400 16M (manual memory config to avoid invisible
> cursor... ;-)
>
> (Install is from a snapshot taken Sunday afternoon US PST).
>
> It would be nice for the people used to KDE to have the DPMS settings in
> the kde control center where we are used to it.
>
> One application request for the next time around.... In terms of image
> viewers I'd really like to see a program called qiv in there.
>
> -randy
