Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:03, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hung Dang wrote: >>> >>>> I often use Ctrl+F1 to F6 to back to the command line and if your X is >>>> fine you can back the X screen using Ctrl+F7. Or if you want to kill >>>> your X then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace may be helpful. >>>> >>>> Hung >>>> >>>> >>>> Dale wrote: >>>> >>>>> I know the subject is a bit lacking but here goes. I'm thinking >>>>> about >>>>> trying this xorg-server upgrade again. I been thinking about a >>>>> way to >>>>> do this and not have to pull the plug on my rig if it fails, which >>>>> I bet >>>>> it does. This is the command I am thinking about trying. >>>>> /etc/init.d/xdm start && sleep 5m && /etc/init.d/xdm stop >>>>> >>>>> I'm thinking this way. Start X first. If it fails, it will stop >>>>> in 5 >>>>> minutes and come back to a console. Think this will work? If xorg >>>>> works, I can switch back to a console and ctrl C the command and >>>>> carry on. >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? Better ideas? >>>>> >>>>> Dale >>>>> >>>>> :-) :-) >>>>> >>>>> >>> That won't work because if xorg-server fails, my keyboard doesn't work >>> when I switch to X. If the keyboard doesn't work, I can't switch back >>> to anything or type anything. >>> >>> I done been through this one time. I'm trying to figure out how to get >>> back to console with a keyboard that doesn't work at all. >>> >>> >> >> Best way to do this is using a remote shell (SSH for example) in >> another machine. If that's not an option or X driver fails in >> conflicts with the kernel (mine did before I found a suitable config) >> then you're pretty much lost, cause your video is gone for good. >> >> You can try SYSREQ combinations to kill the server and if that fails >> even cleanly reboot the rig, but as I said before, depending on the >> problem your video is gone. >> >> > stick a "chvt 1" after the "xdm stop". > > >
Did a man chvt and that is interesting. I got to add that to the command just in case. ;-) Thanks Dale :-) :-)
