information junky that I am, i set rvplayer running again on friday,
and it crashed X another couple of times. The bad way, so that it
can't be restarted ("failure in apmsync()" and the blinkies).
This time, I remembered that some had suggested that going to runlevel
3 rather than rebooting might solve things (somehow, when X goes down,
it corrupts something badly enough that it has the sync problem when it
tries to restart).
I tried logging in remotely and using "telint 3" as root, but when I
came back to my office, it was still in a fit of the blinkies; xdm had
not been killed.
Do I need to do something more? (killall -9 xdm first??)
And is there a way to force my video card to fully reset itself? My
uninformed & ignorant suspicion is that it's something on the card
itself that gets reset during boot, but not upon instantiating X . . .
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