From: Glyn Kennington (glyn.kennington@hertford.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Sun 09 Mar 2003 - 23:01:31 IST
Darryl Cousins wrote:
> Calling savetextmode renders the keyboard unuseable
> (no reaction) forcing me to power down and face the slow
> fdisk with errors.
I've had this problem on my laptop occasionally. It's not a similar laptop,
so I can't help with the svga problems themselves, but I can suggest a
treatment for the symptom: The best solution is to connect to your box
remotely using ssh, and start a shutdown. If you're not on a network, what
you can do is set up a delayed shutdown with
shutdown -r +1
before you start trying things with svga modes.
Then, if you find the keyboard locked, you can just wait for the
1 minute to expire, and the machine will shut down and reboot without
needing to fsck. And once you actually get svga working properly, you have
1 minute to cancel the shutdown with Ctrl-C.
Glyn
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I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain.
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