Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03 <at> volumehost.net> writes:
> > > > and provided you have enabled CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ in your kernel, > > > > hold down Alt and SysReq/PrtScr and press S, U and B in turn to > > > > reboot (reasonably) cleanly. Pausing a couple of seconds between > > > > each key is probably a good idea. Kernel Hacking: CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y > > Interesting idea however this laptop does not have this key > > "SysReq/PrtScr". > Every keyboard has a SysRq button. On most, it is shared with PrtScrn. > However, I've also seen it shared with either an F key or ScrollLock or by > itself. Also, I've seen laptops where you had to hold the Fn key to get a > key that acts like SysRq. > I guarantee you've got one, although I suppose it might not be labeled > SysRq at all. OK, sorry; between being very tired and aging eyes, I had to use a magnifying glass and found these 2 keys: "home/prt sc" and "end/sys rq" the bottom ones look like function key markings...(tiny font) So When X/kde freezes up everything I'm going to hold down these (3) keys: ALT+FUNCKEY+SYSRQ" and then Sequentially press "E I S U B" with a 2 second delay between keystokes and the system will cleanly reboot? This failed to work for me. After it hung, I tried the above and many variations on this theme of keystroke to reboot. Nothing worked. However, upon powercycle reboot, the system came back clean with no fsck..... Maybe this keystroke sequence clean up everything, but failed to initiate a reboot? Well, with no changes to the system or config files , this time X/kde failed to launch, or I guess I should say the screen went black (dark) and just latched up the system completely, all remote ssh session and the console LATCHED UP. Repeatable now so KDE now launches to a dark (latched up) screen now. When I boot to a console, the system is fine. When I launch X/kde via startx it latches up immediately.... I have no idea how to figure out this problem. To me it has to be the xorg.conf file? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
