On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When a program causes my X server to crash (video/kbd lockup), I can successfully
>login remotely and kill X, but my text-mode console display vanishes. I can still
>type in the console, but all I see is my wallpaper/background from X's root window
>shift around a bit. This had happened to me on my Sony VAIO laptop and I dismissed it
>as being a Neomagic or internal laptop problem. Well now I'm running a dual AMD
>system with an Asus Geforce2 GTS and it's still doing it. Does anyone have an idea
>for me to be able to regain my text-mode console without rebooting?
>
> Thanks
If you have to kill the server, it hasn't crashed - it's stuck someplace.
Which, of course, shouldn't happen. If the server segfaulted it would
have gone through its shutdown code, and most of the time (if it didn't
get hosed too badly by the wayward code that cause the segfault) it
would restore the console itself. Killing the server will never restore
the console.
Hangs on Neomagic are most likely due to flaky acceleration or
maybe a power management problem. If the Geforce card is using
NVIDIA's drivers and you have a 760MP chipset and you have AGP
enabled, a hang is expected eventually because there are bugs
in both AGPGART and NVGART with respect to that chipset. You
have to disable AGP to get it to work reliably at the moment.
Yes, I know that didn't answer your question.
Mark.
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