Personally I think Alt+SysRQ is the most logical choice. Although an
alternate assignment for testing might help... ;)
> Yep. But there's not much you can do [0], since the kernel doesn't know
> how to properly restore video modes.
There must be some standard way to tell the video card to go back to 80x25
textmode. At least on the i386 architecture. Unfortunately I don't
enough about video card programming to know what that would be.
Actually I've been looking at the do_SAK() code and thinking that if it
sent SIGHUP, SIGTERM, and finally SIGKILL to the processes that were
originally on the console, it would give X time to shut itself down and
take care of the problem itself. But a failsafe where the keyboard would
be put back in XLATE mode and the video mode restored to text would be
nice too.
> > Alt+SysRQ+k incarnation as well. I'd try it to see but I've crashed my
> > console enough times for a 24-hour period. ;)
>
> Doing svgalib stuff? ;)
*chuckle*
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