On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:54:59 -0800 Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I know what you mean :) But just for the sake of fairness I have had > to reboot my gentoo box because of hangs. It has happened 3-4 times > randomly in last 3 months that after sitting idle for sometime it > hangs... I see a frozen Xscreensaver and tapping the mouspad (its a > laptop) doesnt get it off....... ctrl+alt+f1 doesnt work hmm ctl alt backspace is what I use never tried the f* combo other than to switch to a console/terminal. Out of curiosity which screen saver does that to you? I like the "really slick screensavers" which in nix is rss_glx however I notice it freezes/locks up X for no good reason sometimes to the point of reboot because killing X doesn't work and it wont let me change desktops. The other screensaver I have and which I find quite cool is electricsheep (distributed screensaver) however now it's out of beta and the ebuilds haven't caught up so I get an upgrade message and it stops. > (ctrl+at+(+)/(-) has never worked for me somehow) and the only option > I got is reboot. What does that code do? Tho I've used linux for a few years majority of that was on mandrake and I never got to learning what all the combos do. > I know this may not be linux crash... may be Xfree crash but then > again when we say windows crash.. what component do we mean? > Still this is not similar to BSOD so for that... err....what about > kernel panic!!!!! > regards > Spundun Only times I've really had linux crash was on boot after a power failure or some program went wacky. Then I get a use e2fsck kind of message and it clears inodes and such. Most often I just get X going wacky due to the odd program but it doesn't happen very much. Compared to M$ it is way less and thankgoodness we don't have to reboot... just simply kill X and restart it majority of the time. As for nix owchies I have to say I love linux error messages. Things like penguins on fire and stuff. Somewhere online is a list of the silly things it can say. :) -- Susie VE7 HFA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arienadean.tripod.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue." - Henry James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
