console hang, was RE: [plug] reiserfs

[Dennis Plester]

No, not at all Mike. It can't be possibly as drastic as hitting the reset
button!

Tried killing X and restarting it from a telnet session. Sometimes it works,
but often it will simply start freezing again a few moments later. Can't see
then why it's so bad (or that it shows a Windoze mentality) to reboot the
machine.

I have managed to eliminate the problem by using 3.3.6 rather than 4.01.
Which is a shame, because by my understanding, the 3d acceleration functions
of my TNT2 only work under 4.01. Luckily I still have the twin Voodoo 2s
running in SLI mode under the hood the accelerate the essentials like Unreal
Tourney and Quake 3 Arena! Not quite as potent, but still effective.

Linux doesn't always have to be so serious Mike!

Later,

Dennis. 

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Mike Holland [SMTP:myk at golden.wattle.id.au]
	Sent:	Thursday, 7 December 2000 17:09
	To:	'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
	Subject:	console hang, was RE: [plug] reiserfs

	On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Dennis Plester wrote:

	> I know this is off topic, but my PC sometimes hangs, which I am
certain is
	> from my noname TNT2 card as well. If you have a second PC
networked to the
	> first, you can usually connect to the PC through a client like
Win98's
	> hyperterm and issue a shutdown -r command.

	Isnt that a bit drastic? You are still in a windoze mentality.
	If the console hangs, but you can telnet it, try killing and
restarting X.

	-- 
	Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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