First all I can say is I hardly ever have it freeze on me unless I have
agp or my video drivers or something missing or configured incorrectly.
I'm not sure if I understand what your are saying here. Can you or cant
you change to a different console.
In theory if you log in and startx in your first console you can switch
back with ctrl-alt-f1 and do a ctrl + c which will basically kill the X
server. Personally I've seen X server freeze like that before, and
being unable to input from the keyboard, which i would guess somehow
caused the keyboard drivers used in X to fail.
But with the mouse still able to work and display the video still works though X has definitely frozen. It's sounds like quite a complicated freeze. If I was you I would try to figure out why it freezes fairly often. when for me personally on a 2.6.10 kernel it never freezes when properly set up. I can't really say whats wrong or not without some more information or some basic troubleshooting on your end.
If I was you I wouldn't be worrying about how to kill it but rather what is causing it to hang.
Incorrect configuration is quite common on this little system, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's the case...
I can't change to a different console or do anything with the keyboard. Actually, I haven't tried to switch to the first console where X was started... That may work, but I doubt it.
All I can say about it is that it almost always freezes within twenty or thirty seconds when I open a Konsole (especially if I scroll up in it), and that it only froze once in the last day with only GKrellM, X-Chat, Thunderbird, and Firefox running (and the occasional Konqueror to browse the files on the computer with its pretty GUI or NEdit).
Since I should have included some details, I'm using version 6.8.0-r3 of the X.org X server or whatever it's called, and the keyword-masked 1.0.6629-r1 nVidia drivers (would use the not-keyword-masked version, but it refused to work). Both were installed through Portage. Kernel is 2.6.9-gentoo-r9. Obviously, I'm using an nVidia graphics card.
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