> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
>
> [SNIPPED ... all other quotes]
> I started X. As root I killed X. Keyboard, etc., all locked.
> I logged in over the network and restarted X. Everything worked,
> including ctl-alt-backspace which got me out of X with a usable
> keyboard. `stty sane` and `stty rows 24` fixed up about averything.
>
> Aparently X doesn't put everything back the way it found it when
> it exits. Instead, it puts everything back the way is should be.
It puts everything back the way it was when X started. That may
or may not be the way things "should be".
> --- more or less. Rows was at 1...
>
> This means you can recover from an X fatality if you have access
> from the network.
If you are lucky. And even you didn't get 100% successful
restoration. Try anything tricky with fbcon and see how far you get then.
Jon
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