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Håkon Alstadheim wrote: |
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> Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:03, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Hung Dang wrote: |
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>>>> I often use Ctrl+F1 to F6 to back to the command line and if your X is |
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>>>> fine you can back the X screen using Ctrl+F7. Or if you want to kill |
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>>>> your X then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace may be helpful. |
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>>>> Hung |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Dale wrote: |
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>>>>> I know the subject is a bit lacking but here goes. I'm thinking |
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>>>>> about |
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>>>>> trying this xorg-server upgrade again. I been thinking about a |
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>>>>> way to |
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>>>>> do this and not have to pull the plug on my rig if it fails, which |
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>>>>> I bet |
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>>>>> it does. This is the command I am thinking about trying. |
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>>>>> /etc/init.d/xdm start && sleep 5m && /etc/init.d/xdm stop |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> I'm thinking this way. Start X first. If it fails, it will stop |
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>>>>> in 5 |
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>>>>> minutes and come back to a console. Think this will work? If xorg |
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>>>>> works, I can switch back to a console and ctrl C the command and |
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>>>>> carry on. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Thoughts? Better ideas? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Dale |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> :-) :-) |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> |
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>>> That won't work because if xorg-server fails, my keyboard doesn't work |
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>>> when I switch to X. If the keyboard doesn't work, I can't switch back |
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>>> to anything or type anything. |
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>>> I done been through this one time. I'm trying to figure out how to get |
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>>> back to console with a keyboard that doesn't work at all. |
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>>> |
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>> Best way to do this is using a remote shell (SSH for example) in |
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>> another machine. If that's not an option or X driver fails in |
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>> conflicts with the kernel (mine did before I found a suitable config) |
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>> then you're pretty much lost, cause your video is gone for good. |
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>> You can try SYSREQ combinations to kill the server and if that fails |
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>> even cleanly reboot the rig, but as I said before, depending on the |
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>> problem your video is gone. |
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> stick a "chvt 1" after the "xdm stop". |
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Did a man chvt and that is interesting. I got to add that to the |
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command just in case. ;-) |
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Thanks |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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