Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:50:10 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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.
>
> For a tiny fraction of cards. On a cirrus you can get into a state where
> even the engineers who designed it couldnt get it back without a power
> down.
>
> Alan
>
Yes. On one of my S3_VERGE machines, I could get X back up and it
worked fine. However, once I normally exited X, I was stuck with
a "strange" screen and no keyboard control.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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