>> the tiny reset button!! rebooting!!
S> That's very odd. Have you tried pressing "f" to get out of fullscreen mode
S> or "q" to quit xine or right-click the xine logo to get a context menu?
I recall pressing all over the keyboard with no reaction.
S> Or what exactly do you mean by "freezes my whole terminal"?
Even ALT CTL F1 etc. didn't work. Same with alt ctl del, etc.
>> Would
>> # (sleep 200; killall xine)& xine -V XShm
>> have given me a fighting chance?
S> It should have, although I'd rather do it as
S> xine & sleep 200; killall xine
OK, but how can one abort if things turn out OK then instead of my:
>> (I could use
>> # kill $!
>> if xine turned out to be working.)
S> No you couldn't. xine would have to run in background for that, which it
S> doesn't in your case.
The kill $! is to abort "the timebomb that is about to kill xine", not xine.
S> Which Desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, XFCE?) are you running?
$ pstree
`-xdm-+-XFree86-debug
`-xdm---sh-+-icewm
|-sh---firefox-bin
|-sh---emacs-+-emacsserver
| `-ispell
|-ssh-agent
`-xcin
S> Is the mouse still working?
No
S> What about the Num Lock key?
Probably not.
Screen frozen. Clock in corner frozen.
Don't let the XFree86-debug above fool you. I'm taking it off soon.
I'm in no position to test all of this. If any hardware breaks it will
entail a lengthy trip to the city.
