%% Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
nl> I ran XF86Setup, and chose the SVGA driver. I left everything else
nl> alone. It hung my machine solid (again).
Are you _sure_ your machine was hung? That rarely happens.
More likely you just can't use your monitor.
Try using ALT-F1 or maybe CTRL-ALT-F1. That should switch you to the
console you were using before you started X. Alternatively, you could
use F2 instead of F1 to get to a different console and log in there.
You can then reboot your system properly if you like, although you
almost certainly don't need to reboot (this ain't Windows! :)
Instead, use "ps" to find the X server process, then kill it:
# ps -aef | grep /X
...make sure you get the right process: the PID is the second field...
# kill 1234 # or whatever the PID was
If that doesn't work (ps shows the process is still running), you can
try "kill -9 1234".
Then try again with some of the other suggestions here.
As others have pointed out, the version of X in Debian 2.2 is not as
good at this as later versions are.
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