Re: Hardware cursor

[becka]

HI !

> > Ever see a process that survives kill -9?
> The init-process survives it always.

No. It doesn't. It just gets respawned by the kernel.

> > Ever see a process that hangs and needs to be killed?
> Yep. A broken and crashed X-program.

> > How can you kill a process if it hangs and takes the console with it?
> If you have a kernel >=2.2.0, you just type:
> Alt-SysRq-k

That doesn't help too much. If the console is in graphics mode, it will 
stay there. You might get back to X (blind typing after SAK-r), but you
usually won't ever get back your textmode. 
KGI-0.0.7 fixed that right :-).

CU, ANdy

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