On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:04:18 -0600, Beowulf wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:44:55 -0600, Dan C wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:21:55 -0600, Beowulf wrote:
>>
>>> My Ubuntu 6.10 system froze up a couple of times yesterday, only when
>>> playing Unreal Tournament 2004 (full screen mode). ctrl+alt+backspace had
>>> not effect, neither did ctrl+alt+del Totally frozen, had to use reset
>>> switch on PC case. Is there anything that can be done in such situations
>>> to regain control without a hardware reset as I did?
>>
>> 1. Try to open a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), if that works log in and kill the
>> game (use ps/top to find the game's PID). Or, do a proper reboot from
>> that console.
>>
>> 2. SSH into the box from another and do the same as above.
>
> Thank you, nice tip-- I will try it on freeze up next time. (For anybody
> googling that finds this, I also recently figured out that Ctrl-Alt-F7

That's Alt-F7, the Ctrl is not needed. Also Alt-F1 through F6 will give
you each of the command line terminals, once you are in one of them.

> brings one back to one's original GUI after doing Ctrl-Alt-F2,
> Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc.)

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