On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Eben King wrote:
> So just now I ran xscreensaver-config to amuse the cat. (She seems to like
> "Bouncing Cow" and the other one goes batty for "Atunnel".) I was going
> through the list, previewing ones which might be good, and one of them in the
> Bs or Cs (I forget which one, but it was two words and reminded me of a name)
> took down X.
My description was off. It's "Crackberg". I unchecked it, so it won't run
again, but as I was doing so it got selected and ran in the demo window.
But it worked, so the failure is intermittent. Argh.
> So I logged in by ssh and am sending this. I haven't rebooted yet (and
> rebooting is the only way I know of fixing the video card). Is there a way,
> maybe by rmmod && modprobe, to avoid it?
I reinstalled the X video driver (Nvidia's binary-only one). No console,
and "DISPLAY=:0 startx" wouldn't run remotely ("user is not authorized",
blah).
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