[TriLUG] Re: RH 7.1 on ThinkPad T21 hanging

[Donald Ball]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> > My experience shows that the lockups on late-model thinkpads
> > is just the console. You can login remotely and (usually)
> > reboot the machine. Just killing X doesn't clear it. After
> > hearing about problems with gpm alongside X on these machines,
> > I've tried it without it and I've had few problems since.
>
> Buggrit!  Millenium hand and shrimp!  Everything was fine for
> a couple of days after I disabled gpm, but it just hung again.
> (With a different screensaver hack on the screen this time.)
> It's definitely *not* a hard hang, since I could log in to
> reboot it.
>
> Is there any way to get the display back when this happens?
> I think I just damaged a couple of chapters I was writing
> because I couldn't reach the StarOffice gui to close them..

init 3, then init 5 maybe? assuming you start up in runlevel 5...

- donald