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Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:55 PM, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote: >> Huh??!! WTF would they remove the ability to kill the X server? I >> don't care how damn stable they say it is, sometimes you get a >> hard-to-kill process and you just want to nuke from orbit without a >> complete restart. Sometimes when I lose sound and I don't know what's >> got a hold of the device, that's my only recourse. Can someone confirm >> this blasphemy for me? > > Err the official release notes for 9.04 say it's true (about half way > down the page) > > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904 Ah, For some reason I didn't see the part that you could enable it again (though it would have been nice for them to tell you what to put in xorg.conf. I found it here http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=printpage%3Btopic=3100383.0) >> ext4 sounds too risky for me, though better handling of big files would >> be handy on my MythTV drives. > > I've been using XFS for that for almost two? years now. I may try that. The server install will be a little trickier though, since I'm still cranking along on Fedora 8 on that box. That means a fresh install. All my recordings are on separate drives, so I can always make their conversion a separate project. Thanks, all.
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