Spake Eben King on Monday, November 27, 2006 at 01:47PM -0500:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Dylan William Hardison 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.
>
> In that case you start X only via startx?
Yep. Very useful when fglrx or nv decides to break!
also, when I tell X to die, it *dies*. I've always been annoyed at *dm
restarting X sessions I kill with control-alt-backspace.
> >>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. 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.
>
> Well, if you don't want to move the session from the laptop you could just
> run btdownloadcurses from the CLI. Of course, if X / the laptop / the LAN
> crashes or otherwise dies, you're SOL. screen does provide some protection.
Well, the download could take longer than the laptop is going to be
presnet or on (e.g. if it takes 24 hours, I'm not leaving my laptop in
the living room that long, as I might take it to work or something.)
soon, I'll be doing this from my new nintendo DS, which will make a much
better remote download control / video control than the laptop. XD
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