This is part of The Pile, a partial archive of some open source mailing lists and newsgroups.
Subject: RE: Opinions From: Bill Carlson <wcarlson@vh.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:43:17 -0600 (CST) On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote: > > > 1. XFree86 - Nothing kills a machine faster than buggy video drivers. > > Sometimes only the display gets wacked and one can telnet in and reboot > > the machine, sometimes not. > > There's no needs to reboot in this case. You can just kill the X server > and everything will be back to normal. > X can't mess up kernel space, so once you killed the process it's gone. > I can see you haven't had this happen to you. The keyboard is gone, the mouse is gone, the display is toast. Trust me, I fiddled with this for quite a while, upgrading to a new release of XFree86 made the problem go away. You can kill the X server all you want, the trick is to get something to tell the card to do back to text mode! I never had any luck doing that, better to clean shutdown/boot. I've also had X completely kill a machine, no network no nothing. C'est la kernel software. === Subject: RE: Opinions From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:46:18 +0100 (CET) On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote: > I can see you haven't had this happen to you. The keyboard is gone, the > mouse is gone, the display is toast. Trust me, I fiddled with this for > quite a while, upgrading to a new release of XFree86 made the problem go > away. You can kill the X server all you want, the trick is to get > something to tell the card to do back to text mode! Using SVGATextMode to switch to graphics mode and back should do the trick. ===