On 2/26/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley(a)charlescurley.com> wrote:
Please turn off the HTML mail. Thanks.
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:44:42AM -0800, Larry Kelly wrote:
>
> I have Fedora6 with VIA chipset onboard video and Gnome. Many of the
> installed applications will freeze the display screen, and mouse.
When
> this happens is there a Gnome keyboard shortcut that will give me
access to
> a shell prompt, so that I can kill the offending process, or restart X
> windows. Right now, my only option is to turn the power off.
If you have another computer handy, try:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5405
Or simply set up mgetty so that you can log in through a nullmodem
cable on a serial port. Probably safer, too (if very 90ish).
Andras