On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Camiel Coenen wrote:

> 
> I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze (keyboard stops
> working as does the touchpad on my laptop). This is very annoying because I
> have to reboot my system by using the reset button, which in turn is a
> dangerous way of restarting linux.
> Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such a freeze ?

don't know, but you still can telnet your box and run "halt" or "kill xyz"
or you can use the sysrq key to sync/unmount/reboot. the sysrq key is
available as a kernel option (2.2.x).

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