On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > > > 2) If I'm running a DGA application and it stops working, is there any > > > > way for me to safely get back out to X or to the shell? > > > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace causes a crash which looks to be the result of DGA not > > > > giving control back to X when X tries to quit.
> > Oh, ok, how would I go about trying to fix it? It seems its not restoring > > control to the X-Server. > > Video: ATi Mach64 2MB > > Motherboard: DataExpert TX531 > > RAM: 128MB PC100 > > CPU: AMD K6-2 233MHz > I have not been able to duplicate this problem. Killing the DGA app > causes a return to X. Killing the X server causes a return to text mode. > Both as expected. A bit more on this. If your DGA app looks at keyboard input, then it >must< implement its own exit sequence. That's because DGA "steals" keyboard input >before< the server has a chance to recognise Alt+Ctrl+Backspace. In particular, this means that if the app dives into an infinite loop, for example, the only way, other than rebooting, to return to X (or text mode for that matter) is to kill the app behind the server's back. Yet another reason to get rid of DGA for 5.0. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
