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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:07:44 +1030

Re: Very, very newbie-please be gentle

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:38:13PM +1030, Andrew Galdes wrote:

> Thats will restart X, i guess what you want. del will restart linux. does it
> work from the command line such as (was it richard who said) ">linux 3" and
> then >startx from here...?

No, CTRL-ALT-BKSP will kill X. It's a lot more useful than restarting
the machine, chiefly because the X debugging information will be able
to be used to uncover the problem.

You could also try saving the X output to a file.

	andrew@aviion andrew > startx >xlog 2>&1

   - andrew

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