[MLUG] hard X crash that kills keyboard

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Hi MLUG-

Has anyone had experience with FC4 (Ya, ya.. I know old school...)  
that crashes X so hard that the keyboard no longer responds to status  
LEDs (num lock, caps lock, etc...) or even ctrl-alt-del.  Ctrl-Shift- 
Alt-Backspace won't even kill X.  The monitor goes out of sync (no  
signal) and the keyboard becomes a paperweight.

A work around was to edit the inittab to keep things in runlevel 3  
but, for this particular user a GUI is a must.  I nuked xorg.conf and  
had the system build a new one with X -configure.  even X -config  
xorg.conf.new crashes the system.  If I ssh in the system reveals  
that X is at 99.7% cpu and has no desire to chill out.  A kill -15  
bounces off and a kill -9 brings things back to normal of course with  
no X.

Anyone else seen this before?

Thanks,

George



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