F11: kill -9 doesn't work

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:38:49AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0400
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> > And since the OP indicated he was using the ATI driver, I'd say this
> > might be a classic case study in why proprietary, closed-source
> > drivers are bad from the user's perspective too, not just the
> > distro's.
> 
> I think he meant the xorg ati driver. As far as I know there is no
> binary from ati that works on f11's version of xorg yet. I certainly
> had the xorg ati driver puking its guts all over at least one
> machine at work till I figured out how to make it switch
> to the vesa driver.

I guess it was unclear from the post, I ASSUMEd too much. ;-)

Did you use the following command to do that?

system-config-display --verbose --noui --reconfig --set-driver=vesa

Or something else?

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