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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hgatenl!tedux!clifton!baron
- From: baron@clifton.hobby.nl (Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: X dying
- References: <sedty_G00Vp0EYd0Vn@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92090665@clifton.hobby.nl>
- Organization: Minix Hobbynet Host
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 21:48:18 MDT
- Lines: 18
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- Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > Whenever the X server dies (without shutting down properly first),
- > keyboard input appears to go nowhere from thereafter. A user can hose
- > the keyboard by starting X and then kill -9'ing the X process. What is
- > needed is some way (maybe in the kernel) where if X dies badly, the
- > screen and keyboard are restored.
-
- A blindly typed 'reboot' has worked fine for me during all the hours of
- setting up an acceptable Xconfig. Just when I got fed up with that I had
- a Xconfig that was only a little bit wrong, and I could exit X using the
- Ctrl-Alt-Backspace combination. That gives back my normal text screen
- (if it hasn't been to much f***ed up by X).
-
- Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst
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- (-: baron@clifton.hobby.nl tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl :-)
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