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On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Bill Jonas wrote:
> Okay, I tried it (the SVGALib binary; I've d/l'd the other two but haven't
> tried yet), but Quake segfaulted and left my console in an unusable state.
> (Couldn't even CTRL-ALT-DEL.) Looking at the Quake-HOWTO, I tried
> "./squake -noudp", but that didn't help.
>
> Any suggestions?
Enable the magic SysRq key. I ranted about it on this list, it't in the
archive:
http://lists.nothinbut.net/mailman/pubarchive/plug/1999-October/002859.html
It tells you how to reset your console if something (like quake or X) had
changed the keyboard mode & then hung.
This isn't going to make quake work, it'll just keep you from hitting the
power button.
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