Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Kragen (kragen@pobox.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:06:27 -0400 (EDT)

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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> Yes, but the difference if the kernel video drivers crash, I know
> where to start looking. If X crashes and screws up the video card, the
> video drivers *could* be the problem. But a whole lot of other things in
> the X server could also be the problem. XFree86 4.0, which has separate
> video driver libraries, should help clear this problem up a lot though.

The kernel is bigger than X, and harder to debug, too. Have you read
Unix for Dummies yet?

Kragen

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