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  2. From: spencer@hailwood.asd.sgi.com (Paul Spencer)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
  4. Subject: Re: Reset graphics pipeline from unix - how?
  5. Date: 6 Nov 1992 04:30:45 GMT
  6. Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
  7. Lines: 16
  8. Message-ID: <1dcsdlINNpfj@fido.asd.sgi.com>
  9. References: <srp.720994093@cgl.ucsf.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: hailwood.asd.sgi.com
  11.  
  12. srp@cgl.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) says:
  13. > 
  14. >     I've tried many logical combinations of /usr/gfx/stopgfx,
  15. > /usr/gfx/gfxinit and /usr/gfx/startgfx [...]
  16. >     Is there a standard way to restart/reset the graphics subsystem
  17. > without taking the machine down?
  18.  
  19. /usr/gfx/stopgfx; /usr/gfx/startgfx &
  20.  
  21. (as root) should work.
  22.  
  23. ....paul
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26. Paul Spencer                 Silicon Graphics Advanced Graphics Division
  27. spencer@sgi.com                                Mountain View, California
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