On 11/27/06, Dylan William Hardison <dylan@hardison.net> wrote:
>
> Spake Eben King on Monday, November 27, 2006 at 09:33AM -0500:
> > >How often do you crash X, and what are you running?
> >
> > If mplayer gets a bad movie, or doesn't like my video card or something,
> it
> > might play a few ms of the movie and then hang on a black
> screen. Doesn't
> > respond to ctrl-alt-Fn, q, esc, or any other keystroke. Only solution
> I've
> > found is to log in remotely and do a "/etc/init.d/gdm restart".
>
> I think back in Debian Sarge, it was impossible to remove xdm AND kdm AND
> gdm,
> so one had to sabotage /etc/init.d/xdm.. Nowadays it's just possible to
> remove them, thankfully.
On a semilar tangent, anyone how to get debian to not require udev to be
installed?
Simple one word answer Slackware!
> Hasn't crashed in weeks, since I learned to play all "dubious" movies
> elsewhere. But I'm open to the possibility that it _might_, which is why
I
> run some stuff outside of X.
I too use btdownloadcurses, inside of a screen session.
another great option for machines that have issues, is I use pfsense for a
router and use btdownloadcurses and it downloads to a nfs share. on a file
server. But the same deal can be done with 54g rev 1 -3 or a 54GL
flashed with openwrt or ddwrt or any of the many open source wrt flavors
Also sense the lasted pfsense update I just plug in a spare usb drive insead
of using a network share.
This is useful as I can check on the status of it while at work.
It's also required since I typically download anime and such to my
workstation (which has a huge harddrive) while using my laptop (in the
living room)
so I can play it on the TV computer.
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