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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:59:08 +0100 Thomas Arrow wrote: > James Wonnacott wrote: > >Don't know how to fix it- but a work-around could be to use a terminal in X:- > >Don't know which ones come with suse but there'll be one there somewhere. > > Well thanks but im already doing that. It is useful when your playing a > game or something else and X crashes so you can get to a console and > restart X. Doing it blindly is not very fun at all. I also noticed it > does this on the schools linux box with Debian so any others ideas maybe > possible as it does not use nvidia drivers. > -- > Tom (the younger) Hi again. Have you thought about using the SAK? If you press <ALT>+<SysRq>+<K> then it'll kill everything that was running on a particular tty (usually tty7 for X). Depending on the setup, you'll either then have to restart X manually or it'll do it automagically itself. For more information on SAK: http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&q=SAK&btnG=Search Grant. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html