[Tfug] Persistent Linux and X Crashes. How to track down?

[Chad Woolley]

By the way, this was almost surely heat-related.  I took the sides off
my case, gave it some room, and pointed a little plastic fan at the
motherboard.  No more crashes :)  Thanks for all the advice.

-- Chad

On 8/4/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know.  I have crappy used CRTs.  I may get radiation poisoning, but
> I like to live dangerously.
>
> I recently toured Google with my friend who works there.  Everyone
> there has dual 24" lcds, turned portrait-mode and next to each other.
> Huge desktop.  We just set that up for our CI montor machine at work.
> That's like almost 2 grand worth of monitors, though - not cheap.
>
> -- Chad
>
> On 8/4/06, Ronald Sutherland <rsutherland at epccs.com> wrote:
> > 4 monitors, I love it... I also use a crap load of monitors both at home
> > and work and have often wondered if I put X-ray sensitive film on the
> > back of my chair if I would get an image. Although at home I have a LCD
> > now .. moving into the 19th century never felt so good.
> >
> > Chad Woolley wrote:
> > > On 8/4/06, TR <trexx at pobox.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is that you TR?  I didn't know you were on this list :)
> > >
> > >
> > >> Four monitors,  Wow I have one monitor and four computers.  I naver have
> > >> figured out what benifit there was to extra monitors on a computer, but
> > >> then I avoid using windoze where there are dozens of applications and
> > >> only one works space.
> > >>
> > >
> > > It's invaluable as a software developer, especially a remote one.  One
> > > screen for the IDE, one for the app or debug output, another for docs,
> > > another for the remote screen of the person you are pairing with or
> > > the PC you are working with, or perhaps the Continuous Integration
> > > status screen.  I also use multiple workspaces, but having everything
> > > a glance away without having to switch workspaces or tab between
> > > windows is a real productivity gain.
> > >
> > > I also have a KVM which hooks my windows box to the main monitor.
> > >
> > >
> > >> If it is a case if video locking up  have you tried to change
> > >> run level in an attempt to recover after ssh'ing in,  #> init 3,  ?
> > >> Even if this fails to recover you may be able to see what cannot be
> > >> killed and restarted giving insight to the cause.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Thanks, I'll try this too.
> > >
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