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>From a ssh session you would definitely need to set the DISPLAY variable |
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because you are using a pty instead of a tty device. But as you |
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previously mentioned the radeon and ati binary drivers both have major |
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issues with X crashing. When any driver crashes, you most likely need |
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to restart the system. And on some systems, you may need a hard reset |
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to reinitialize PCI devices (buggy BIOS implementation) |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Luke-Jr [mailto:luke-jr@×××××××.org] |
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> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:43 PM |
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> To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing? |
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> |
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> |
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> On Friday 29 October 2004 7:57 pm, Robert Zwerus wrote: |
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> > Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > My crashes are not complete. I am ssh'ed into the |
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> machine and can |
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> > > actually reboot it cleanly. The crash is apparently only X for me. |
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> > |
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> > Try entering these commands in the SSH session: |
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> > export DISPLAY=:0 |
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> > startx |
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> > |
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> > Maybe your graphics chip just needs to be reset, startx |
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> will take care |
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> > of that. |
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> startx will take care of the DISPLAY variable also. In normal |
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> situations, it's |
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> fairly rare that you ever need to set it manually. |
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> Anyway, if it's the same issue I've encountered (which it |
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> seems to be), and |
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> IIRC, this won't help anything. |
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> -- |
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> Luke-Jr |
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> Developer, Utopios |
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> http://utopios.org/ |
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