On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:17:42PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > It's stupid that X can set my keyboard or graphics card in a state
> > that requires me to toggle reset.
> 
> it's even stupider that peripheral hardware exists which cannot be
> brought from an unknown state to known state except through a
> powercycle...  (video cards especially.)

Yep, and that's mostly what I was talking about.

I have had to toggle power on machines when I had no way to telnet/ssh
in just because the stupid keyboard was whack or the display had gone
into never never land.

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