Re: kill -9 <pid of X>
Kragen (kragen@pobox.com)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:15:40 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Does that mean X can't restore it either, if it exits properly? Does
> > it mean that some information which would enable us to reset the card
> > is lost when X dies? Or does it just mean that the card has crashed,
>
> The Cirrus cards have situations where unless you know the cards current
> state you can't set a new state reliably. To make it more fun the registers
> are sometimes write only
OK. . . how much of the state do you need to know? And how frequently
does that state change? I'd be a lot happier if I had a user-level
X-server-babysitter program that knew that state, knew X was running,
and knew how to reset the card reliably when X crashes.
Kragen
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