Re: [MLUG] hard X crash that kills keyboard

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

George Robb wrote:
> 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?

I have had this under FreeBSD using rather old nvidia binary drivers.



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