[wplug] White screen of death

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Friday 31 July 2009 4:22:20 pm Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
> Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> > I am running Fedora 9, with two user accounts.  When I switch users I 
> > frequently get a white screen, with an active cursor arrow.  Is there a 
> > way to recover from this other than rebooting?
> 
> 	How are you switching users?
> 
> 	As Mr. Billings said, you can ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the current X 
> server. You can also (with root permissions) killall gdm-binary, or 
> switch to runlevel 3, and back to runlevel 5 (init 3, init 5). Any of 
> those *should* reset the video card.

Not "service gdm restart"?

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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