From: Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Restart "frozen" X
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:45:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130227081509.GA9996@dethkomp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130227031851.GA3314@syscon7.inet>
On 26/02/13 at 08:18pm, Joseph wrote:
> I'm running Nvidia driver: 310.32 with my GeForce GTS 450 kernle-3.1.6
>
> but I've noticed it freezes my screen once a day or ever second day.
> Mouse is moving but no icon is responding, nor can I use the keyboard (all frozen).
>
> I can login to the system over ssh. I've tried to restart/zap "xdm" it doesn't help.
> What else can I do to restart "X"?
>
> --
> Joseph
You can try killing the process named /usr/bin/X. I was in a similar
situation once and this worked, don't know how safe it is.
--
- Yohan Pereira
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
between a mermaid and a seal.
-- Mark Twain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-27 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-27 3:18 [gentoo-user] Restart "frozen" X Joseph
2013-02-27 8:15 ` Yohan Pereira [this message]
2013-02-27 8:21 ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-02-27 10:42 ` Alex Schuster
2013-02-27 14:02 ` Joseph
2013-02-27 12:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2013-02-28 1:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Frey
2013-02-28 2:26 ` Francisco Ares
2013-02-28 3:00 ` Joseph
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