I have seen a few instances where switching out of graphical mode and cause
the video to completly lock, what kind of a video card do you have? what x
server are you running?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael H. Warfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 11:50 AM
> To: Mike Miller
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ctrl - alt - F2
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:38:13AM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> > I did something stupid last night, I pressed ctrl-alt-F2 and totally
> > locked up the machine. Actually it may not have been locked up,
> > but I was locked out. The monitor went blank and the keyboard
> > dead. Even the caps lock led was dead ! The only way I could
> > recover was a hardware reset. Why did I do it? I mis-remembered
> > something I'd read about switching from X to console.
>
> That should have put you on Console 2. You should have had
> a login prompt there. Don't know why you would have just died. From
> there <Alt><Fn> or <Cntrl><Alt><Fn> should take you to the various
> virtual consoles with F1 being the first console. One of them (typically
> F7 if you have 6 virtual consoles set up) should dump you back in X.
>
> > The question? Is there a list of commands that should never be
> > issued by uninformed newbies?
>
> Things like...
>
> rm -rf /
>
> :-)
>
> > TIA,
> > Mike
>
> Mike
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