Re: HELP: Killing X

["Blake L. Carlson" <blake-carlson uiowa edu>]

When I tried to startx from a remote terminal, I was given the message
that my video card could not be found.  So, the hardware crashed or
something.  Had to power down the machine to get the video card back.

Thanks everyone for your help -

Blake

charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu wrote:
> 
> On 13-Oct-99 Blake Carlson wrote:
> > I tried doing killall X and killall xinit.  Those processes are gone and
> > it's still not responding??!!!??  None of the remaining processes look
> > like the culprit.  Am I destined to reboot?!! (I'm really sad .....)
> 
> As long as they're really dead (killall without the -9 option sometimes won't
> really kill X if it's hung), you might try restarting X from the remote
> terminal.  Sometimes this wakes the video up again.
> 
> At least, it worked the one time I tried it. ;)
> 
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