From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2aTE-0000a5-7B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:03:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBAD5E08DD; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D7BE08DD for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so10581079ywh.32 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:03:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vj/GTvOLnjBdGLDT9QlxMsN6r7Uf00LEP0KDdVEsu5E=; b=A5xRqyXQWRORvYK8LKWWXf0CHaU5+3tOMQA3pjrwxlzcGEt6sBFZsmYxdd65l+DbSb ctj+qXtG/IEhU3MFuFsXmbhrning0GsQ6YdvAQ1R9kL2HcwKFcpK3/C3xNDTgCja2aK1 gP12Gyi3CMRME0RX8ztTg6i2UE0S1inFMoNaw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CSt2bvutXxva3763iRHAewtYJ6+NIIFIjmUBb/G4grCK4cAz0nrM9IUN6XiuidvnQG z9/hCCiqspwviI6KEXxfzxkn2LkQVhgw3k6FwRSbkyseljHhzcws4NvrKYo/6LCiKo8P vjvwcFjkFp5MWOjJ64EXZN9Spdtcqiv9O4rfs= Received: by 10.150.61.20 with SMTP id j20mr11520505yba.42.1256605410445; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-95-111.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1373745ywh.3.2009.10.26.18.03.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:03:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE646DF.5090502@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:03:27 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg References: <200910262245.19071.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200910270107.37306.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AE62FB0.407@gmail.com> <200910270150.24016.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AE63C10.5080907@darkmetatron.de> <4AE63E82.6030901@gmail.com> <4AE64261.70408@darkmetatron.de> In-Reply-To: <4AE64261.70408@darkmetatron.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 588b1069-e020-495d-b8b9-81b6110751e1 X-Archives-Hash: b21f77e16634dde4b754155aa3633d7f Sebastian Be=C3=9Fler wrote: > Am 27.10.2009 01:27, schrieb Dale: > > =20 >> I'm just grateful for the geek that put the SysRq key sequence in the >> kernel. At least you can get back to a working console and fix the >> stupid thing. >> =20 > > I use ati-drivers here and killing xorg with SysRq only gets me a blank > black screen and a system so deep frozen that even SysRq can't help > anymore. > > So that makes my hate for hal only deeper and colder=E2=80=A6 > > Greetings > > Sebastian > > > =20 This is the sequence you tried I hope. This is copied from a message sent to me a loong time ago. Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken I usually wait a few seconds between each one and only get to press about 2 or 3 when my console shows up. I am using a Nvidia card tho so it may be something different about ATI. Also, someone said a while back that you have to have that option built into the kernel. Have you checked to make sure you have it build in? I think the default is that it is there but never hurts to make certain. Dale :-) :-)=20